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Re: When Searching With Google

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• Subject: Re: When Searching With Google
• From: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 19:50:25 -0500
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On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:07:33PM +0000, Bill de hÓra wrote:
[of Google result pages...]
> I'd love to know what fraction of people click past page 3, or even 
> page 1.

Quite a lot seem to judging by my personal web server's refer logs;
the page number is included in the "referring URI".

People quite often look at several pages on my site for the same search,
and disturbingly often then browse around for a few minutes, coming
back later on with another match for the same search, or a slightly
different search.  I wish I could ask those people exactly what
they were looking for, although one of the most common queries that
I get hits for (with pictures of ruined castles mostly) is simply
    pictures
where I suspect someone was bored :-)

Liam

PS: the pictures of ruined castles (and other engravings and woodcuts
    from old books) are at
    http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/oldbooks/
    in case you're wondering!  Coming shortly is an XML Query-powered
    interface to search by keyword & depicted location.

-- 
Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/

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  • Re: When Searching With Google
    • From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>

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