Searchengines in webalizer.conf
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The list of searchengines in webalizer.conf is simple to correct (if a search engine changes the referrer) and to extend in case a searchengine is missing. But there are some issues you should be aware of. The configuration line is perfectly explained in the webalizer.conf-sample, nevertheless I will repeat it here.
- The keyword "SearchEngine" starts the declaration of a new searchengine.
- The next element specifies a "substring" (not a regular expression!) of the referrer field (in the access_log) to define a match between the searchengine and the configuration line.
- The last element specifies the field the searchstring is defined in. The value of this field will be available in the statistics.
- The list of SearchEngine-statements is compared in the order as written in the config-file.
- As soon as one substring matched, the remaining SearchEngine-statements are ignored (like firewalls usually do) - even if the searchstring-field was not found in the statement! That's why I ordered my list alphabetically.
My current list of entries
SearchEngine abcsearch.com terms=
SearchEngine alltheweb q=
SearchEngine altavista. q=
SearchEngine aolsearch query=
SearchEngine bbc. q=
SearchEngine btopenworld query=
SearchEngine buscador.ya.com q=
SearchEngine dmoz.org search=
SearchEngine dogpile.com q=
SearchEngine dpxml qkw=
SearchEngine eureka. q=
SearchEngine excite search=
SearchEngine feedster.com q=
SearchEngine fireball.de q=
SearchEngine freeserve. q=
SearchEngine google. q=
SearchEngine hotbot. MT=
SearchEngine infoseek. qt=
SearchEngine iwon searchfor=
SearchEngine ixquick.com query=
SearchEngine looksmart key=
SearchEngine lycos. query=
SearchEngine mamma. query=
SearchEngine metacrawler q=
SearchEngine msn. MT=
SearchEngine msxml qkw=
SearchEngine mysearch.com searchfor=
SearchEngine netscape. search=
SearchEngine northernlight. qr=
SearchEngine ntlworld. q=
SearchEngine overture. Keywords=
SearchEngine search.live.com q=
SearchEngine search.earthlink q=
SearchEngine search. qt=
SearchEngine teoma q=
SearchEngine teoma.com q=
SearchEngine teradex.com q=
SearchEngine ukplus key=
SearchEngine voila kw=
SearchEngine webcrawler searchText=
SearchEngine wisenut q=
SearchEngine wisenut.com q=
SearchEngine yahoo. p=
If you know a searchengine not being in the list or you detected a searchengine having changed anything making the entry useless (mainly: changed the name of the searchfield), feel free to contact me.
Please also feel free to copy/paste this list into webalizer.conf, but remember checking the uniqueness (you may have to remove some or even all of your current statements)!