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I think this is the most interesting part: "websites you visit from our organic search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won't know the ex

I think this is the most interesting part: "websites you visit from our organic search listings will still know that you came from Google, but won't know the exact query." I wonder if Google Analytics will still list the queries. (They mention that Google Webmasters' Tools will give the top 1000 queries, but not individual results.)

joelhaus 15y ago
Not for signed in users: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure-accessing.html http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-sec... To help you better identify the signed in user organic search visits, we created the token “(not provided)” within Organic Search Traffic Keyword reporting. You will continue to see referrals without any change; only the queries for signed in user visits will be affected. Note that “cpc” paid search data is not affected. This will make it much more difficult to measure organic search marketing efforts, but for Google, this should encourage more investment in paid marketing campaigns to measure keyword effectiveness.
- hessenwolf 15y ago
  ...so I no longer get to see which queries brought users to our site? (we get a lot of organic search results, not from spam, but reasonably) Ouch.
schammy 15y ago
That doesn't make any sense to me. If you click a link on an HTTPS site, your browser doesn't send a referrer. So people coming from encyrpted Google to another site, that site would actually get NO referrer data at all.