Re: Surprising statistics

Jos=E9 Carlos Santos <jcsantos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> On 03-05-2008 4:20, Jesse F. Hughes wrote:
>

[...]

>> Last month, someone searched for "the means-end basis for involvement"
>> and was directed to my paper.  I'm sure I have no idea what "means-end
>> basis for involvement" means.
>
> How do you know all this? I mean, when you say something like "someone
> searched for [...] and came to my site" how do you know that?

I use a statistics gathering package that searches the logs and puts
them in an easily readable form.  But even without that, you can look
at the logs yourself and see --- assuming that you have access to your
server logs.

Here's an entry:

79-116-211-87.dynamic.brasov.rdsnet.ro - - [03/May/2008:06:28:31 -0400]
"GET /~jesse/Turing/ HTTP/1.1" 200 10560
"http://www.google.ro/search?q=3DTuring+machine+multiply+of+two+integers&hl=3Dro&start=3D20&sa=3DN"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1;
SIMBAR=3D{65C23859-A8B9-4FEB-A19C-560A0A3BE76E})"

You see that the referring URL is

http://www.google.ro/search?q=3DTuring+machine+multiply+of+two+integers&hl=3Dro&start=3D20&sa=3DN

and hence that someone was searching the Romanian (I think) Google for
"Turing machine multiply of two integers" and came to my site, where
they viewed the page ~jesse/Turing/.
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