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Generic search engine detection #2850

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robocoder opened this issue Jan 4, 2012 · 0 comments
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Generic search engine detection #2850

robocoder opened this issue Jan 4, 2012 · 0 comments
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Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc.

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To reduce ongoing maintenance and set some acceptance criteria for new additions. At the same time, potentially improve attribution stats.

If the referrer contains a well-known keyword parameter (eg 'q', 'query'), automatically treat as a searchengine. (Be careful here...too many recognized parameters increases the chances of false matches). The domain name will serve as the search engine name. A generic icon will be used. No link to the search engine will be presented (to deter referrer spam / phishing attack).

Instead, if the number of hits exceeds a threshhold (which varies depending on the period or date range), the link will submit the candidate search engine domain to a piwik service for future inclusion in SearchEngines.php.

Changes to core, new plugin, and piwik.org service api.

@robocoder robocoder added this to the Future releases milestone Jul 8, 2014
@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Long term, Mid term Dec 23, 2015
@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Long term, Mid term Dec 5, 2016
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