Search engine logs
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mining search engine logs
what to put in logs
- IP
- Timestamp
- Cookies
- Query
- Query post-transform
- Referer
- User Agent
- number of matches
- Iist of IDs of items displayed
- click type
- if result item, doc ID of item
Type of click
- result item link
- search navigation (page next)
- search help
- advanced search
- page navigation
- Back button
what is search log noise?
- empty search
- search field spam (urls)
- web navigation mistakes (domain names)
- random characters
- more than 10 repeats of one query in less than one minute...
- web crawlers (googlebot, etc)
(note: site navigation searches are not so bad. Sometimes you need to fix the UI, sometimes it's just how users work)
