Enhanced search_engines.pm for AWStats: Recognize Additional Search Engines in your Web Analytics Reports

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Download our updated search_engines.pm and save it in the AWStats lib directory, after having made a back-up copy of your existing version. Consider backing up your AWStats statistics (intermediary) files as well. They are usually in the AWStats DirData directory. Should be backwardly compatible. Based on official version 1.35 (2005/11/26).

WarningRecognition of newly added search engines is not retroactive – you must reprocess your logs if you want to see new engines or correct Ask search engine recognition for historical data.

WarningTo provide contextual documentation, we have added a link in AWStats to the search engine's home page. This has been implemented for each new search engine, the Italian search engines and all of the existing major search engines. You must apply awstats.pl.search.patch to the AWStats program awstats.pl to take advantage of this functionality. If you don't, the html required for the link will appear in your reports instead of the link. See our instructions on patching a file if you are unfamiliar with the process. (2006-04-19)

Last updated: 2006-10-15.

NoteSee our updated AWStats Robots Database and our other AWStats web analytics resources as well!

We have enhanced the current Search Engines database; this first group is included in the final AWStats 6.5:

  1. added minor Italian search engines
    • arianna http://arianna.libero.it/
    • supereva http://search.supereva.com/
    • kataweb http://kataweb.it/
  2. corrected uk looksmart
    • from 'askuk','ask=', 'bbc','q=', 'freeserve','q=', 'looksmart','key=',
    • to 'askuk','ask=', 'bbc','q=', 'freeserve','q=', 'looksmartuk','key=',
  3. corrected spelling
    • internationnal -> international
  4. added 'google\.'=>'mail\.google\.', to NotSearchEnginesKeys in order to avoid counting gmail referrals as search engine traffic
  5. added 'google\.'=>'translate\.google\.', to NotSearchEnginesKeys in order to avoid counting translate referrals as search engine traffic
  6. added 'altavista\.'=>'babelfish\.altavista\.', to NotSearchEnginesKeys in order to avoid counting babelfish referrals as search engine traffic
  7. added logic to break out Google Base & Froogle as search engines. Froogle not tested.(2005-11-22). Note that not all Base referrers contain a query string, some referrers may be from users just „browsing”. They will be listed as from "Google Base" but will not have a corresponding entry in the Search Phrases report section.

2006-04-19: We've added more search engines. These are not yet included in AWStats:

  1. Ask Deutschland
  2. Ask España
  3. Ask France
  4. Ask Italia
  5. Ask Japan
  6. Ask Nederland
  7. Ask UK
  8. Biglotron
  9. Blingo
  10. GPU p2p search
  11. Clusty
  12. Eniro (Norway)
  13. My Search
  14. Sify (India)
  15. Sogou (China)
  16. Vivisimo

We also made a few updates to support Ask's recent changes and new country launches. You MUST update search_engines.pm to track recent ASK search referrals!

  1. added Ask Japan (ask.jp)
  2. break out Ask new country level variants (DE, ES, FR, IT, NL) (listed above)
  3. updated Ask name from Ask Jeeves
  4. added Ask q= parameter - many recent searches probably not recognized
  5. updated Ask uk (new uk.ask.com added to older ask.co.uk)

2006-05-15: Added a few more search engines; made two enhancements.

  1. updated Mirago query parameter recognition (qry=); added breakout for each country (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland)
  2. added detection of Google cache views from IPs 66.249.93.104 72.14.203.104 72.14.207.104. To do: add more extensive IP list; keywords not yet detected.
  1. Alice.it Internal Search used for Google integration?
  2. Chello Austria
  3. Chello Belgium
  4. Chello Czech Republic
  5. Chello France
  6. Chello Hungary
  7. Chello Norway
  8. Chello Poland
  9. Chello Slovakia
  10. Chello Sweden
  11. Chello The Netherlands
  12. Icerocket
  13. Kartoo (keywords are not available, thus not detected)
  14. Windows Live
  15. netluchs
  16. Sphere
  17. WWWeasel.de
  18. Yahoo Mindset!

2006-05-23: Added more Google Cache IPs.

  1. Added Google Cache IPs

2006-06-23: Added more search engines and some enhancements.

  1. Added better Google cache IP recognition. To do: find definitive list....
  2. Added Google cache keywords parsing (partial). See our related article search engine cache page views.
  3. Alice Search
  4. GoodSearch
  5. googlee.com
  6. gotuneed
  7. icq.com
  8. Nusearch
  9. Polymeta
  10. scroogle
  11. Tango

2006-06-27: Added a Polish search engine and fixed another.

  1. Onet.pl
  2. Wirtualna Polska · changed name from generic "szukaj (search)".

2006-06-30: Added additional Polish search engines.

  1. Dodaj.pl
  2. Gazeta.pl
  3. Gery.pl
  4. Hoga.pl
  5. NetSprint.pl
  6. Interia.pl
  7. Katalog.Onet.pl
  8. o2.pl
  9. Polska
  10. Szukacz
  11. Wow.pl

2006-08-25: Begin to add Social Bookmark referrals. Separate Google Groups from Google.

  1. del.icio.us
  2. Digg
  3. Stumbleupon
  4. Swik
  5. Ineffabile.it
  6. segnalo

2006-10-15: Added additional search engines, many for the German Market.

  1. ABCSøk
  2. Agada
  3. AOL Suche
  4. Freenet Suche
  5. Liyoa
  6. OttoSuch
  7. Picsearch
  8. Seekport DE
  9. T-Online Suche
  10. 4-counter (Google alternative)
  11. AT&T search (powered by Google)
  12. Avantfind
  13. Comet toolbar
  14. Copernic
  15. Goggle (Google alternative)
  16. Googlecom (Google alternative)
  17. Keresolap (Hungarian search engine)
  18. Ledix
  19. Mozbot (French search engine)
  20. sapo.pt (Portuguese search engine)
  21. Searchalot
  22. shaw.ca (powered by Google)
  23. Steadysearch
  24. Steadysearch
  25. Zoznam (Slovak search engine)
 

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