Mint Forum

Search engine results keep showing up in my Referrers pane, and adding them to the blacklist (Preferences->Default->Referrers) has no effect. (I’ve been trying for months. It has no effect.) At the moment I have referrers that include aolsearcht7.search.aol.com, search.alot.com, search.earthlink.net, search.comcast.com, and aolsearch.aol.com, among others. Last week I finally blanked my blacklist, and that, too, has been without effect.

Note that this has been discussed, kind of, when Mint customers have sought to overcome the problem of repeated, unwanted referrers by filtering them out. A specific mentioned problem is referrers from web-based mail services, particularly .mail.yahoo.com, which I’d *love to be able to filter out. But that’s a different problem. In any case, no solution was forthcoming at the time.

I’m running Mint v.2.16.

Could anybody suggest how I might go about getting rid of these? This problem really dilutes the value of tracking referrers.

well i guess i’m technical enough, can anyone confirm that they added this sort of query to the engines.php file to eliminate bing.com from being counted as a new referral?:

$SI_SearchEngines[] = array
(
    'name'          => 'Bing',
    'url'           => 'http://www.bing.com/search',
    'domain'        => 'bing',
    'query'         => 'q'
);

I can confirm that your addition to engines.php will work and will be available in an update shortly. Not sure about the SERPs Pepper though.

You should still see search referrers in the Most Recent tab but if recognized as a search they should not appear in the Newest Unique. That said, this addition to engine.php won’t affect previously recorded data.

For example, right now only google.com works. Would be nice to wildcard the .com

This isn’t true. Foreign search sites are detected and reported. The url property in the $SI_SearchEngines array isn’t used anymore. Check your most recent searches. I just found a number of searches referred by google.co.uk and google.ca. If you don’t see foreign searches then you probably aren’t getting any.

An exact, example url would help.

Not currently, no.