Hi,
i saw this new unique referrer showing up in my site’s stats: google.com/search?as_q=CSS3&hl=en&num=5 … s_rights=&
am i right in assuming that Mint doesn’t understand that as_q= is the same as q= ?
Mint not picking up Google advanced search query right?
That would appear to be the case. The Default Pepper’s search term detection would require a rewrite to identify multiple possible query containers (which I am currently working on).
Why, oh, why couldn’t google just use q and set an advanced search flag instead of a completely different container for advanced search?
Hehe yeah, loads of stat packages get this wrong… Annoying, but true.
Actually this one has an easy fix. It turns out I’m only preg_quote()ing (escaping special regular expression characters) the domain and images indexes each search engine array. So you can add Advanced Google Search recognition by opening /mint/pepper/shauninman/default/engines.php and changing:
'query' => 'q',
to:
'query' => 'q|as_q',
in the first $SI_SearchEngines array listed. I haven’t tested extensively but the change adds support for advanced searches without breaking normal Google searches. It shouldn’t interfere with the other engine’s but like I said, I haven’t tested this fix extensively.
As far as i can see now, it works :)
Now for a few other ones: google.com/search?as_epq=joost+de+valk google.com/search?as_oq=joost+de+valk
and to make it even more complex: google.com/search?as_oq=joost+de+valk&q=test
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