On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, - wrote:
> Initially I thought that the list of search engines (and query
> parameters used to extract search phrases and words) was quite
> comprehensive. But after looking through my list of referrers with
> parameters switched on, it became plain that there are a large number
> of search engines, and some with varying query parameter names.
>
> [...]
>
> Is there a procedure for keeping an up to date list of these matches?
> Seems like a full time job!
>
Right, which is why I don't do it! But someone else does maintain a list.
Have a look at http://www.analog.cx/helpers/index.html#conffiles
> Incidentally, there are some searchengines which have a combination of
> generic names in their url, such as
>
> http://uk.google.yahoo.com
>
> or the above bushinternet URL which contains a
> searchurl=http://www.google.com parameter.
>
> Is it the *first* match in the list of SEARCHENGINE entries which
> always succeeds?
>
Yes, it's the first. If you find something in the distributed analog.cfg
which is not matching correctly by this rule, then of course please do let
me know.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
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