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[Ryan M.]

Physics of soccer!?!?!

[Yan Wang]

Originally Posted by Texan

Physics of soccer!?!?!

That seems like a very likely search that would bring people to this forum... Patrick Dingle has always posted updates regarding the Cornell Robocup Team on these forums (look in the Televised Robotics forum) and has talked about the robots.

Brandon, how is CD able to know that a person is coming from Google? And what they searched for?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Yan Wang

Brandon, how is CD able to know that a person is coming from Google? And what they searched for?

Go search something on Google. When you are at the results page, check the URL. The terms you searched for are contained in the URL. When you click a link in the results (to chiefdelphi.com for instance), that URL is sent to our server as the 'referrer'. The stats programs we use (webalizer, analog, etc) know all of the popular search engines, and how their referrer URL is composed, and they can pull that info out of the URL and make neat stats from it.

Hope that explains it enough. Let me know if not ..

-Brandon

[Elgin Clock]

Is there any way to see a list of what has been searched for most often internally on CD?

From the Search button on the CD menu bar?

[Brandon Martus]

Those stats aren't kept track of in vBulletin. Recent searches are kept, and we could probably do something interesting with that, but the search history only goes back so far (for performance reasons, I think).