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Yes they are cutting off other search analytic packages. If there is no tracking of the search term in the referring url then the analytics package has no way
by cakeface 18y ago
Yes they are cutting off other search analytic packages. If there is no tracking of the search term in the referring url then the analytics package has no way to determine what keywords were used to bring a user to the page.
Since google provides one of the most commonly used analytics packages, Google Analytics, and owns another, Urchin, I would think that they would be the last ones to try this.
- jorgeortiz85 18y agoAhh, I stand corrected. This is what I get for only reading half the article. Yeah, sucky problem. I guess we'll have to wait for Firefox 5 and IE 10 to have support for hashtags in referrals. EDIT: My point still stands that Google shouldn't be beholden to others for their technological/business decisions. Though of if it's deliberate it certainly tightrope-walks the "Don't be Evil" line.
- sam_in_nyc 18y agoHashtags in referrals will not happen. That would break a great deal of things, considering an unencoded "#" in the URL is not expected by nearly any server side scripting language. It would probably be treated as part of last GET parameter.
- durin42 18y agoI thought Urchin became GA? I remember early on in my analytics use the script mentioned urchin, and the newer one they provide doesn't anymore...
- cakeface 18y agoI think that Urchin was the basis for GA. Urchin is still available from google here though http://www.google.com/urchin/ http://www.google.com/urchin/. The main difference that I know of between them is that Urchin has the ability to parse server logs as well as track users through javascript.