On 7/10/2010 1:39 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Chris Marshall<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> If you are typing
>>
>>   PDL>  $a = o<TAB>
>>
>> you get something like this with the Globals completion driver
>> loaded:

No, I want *that* in the Perldl2 shell.  Right now I get
the big list of choices, with prioritizing by what users
actually use, the completion could be *much* more helpful.

> You want *that* on the website? I think you are expecting a bit too
> much, even with AJAX. Even ignoring the programming difficulty, the
> result will probably be frustratingly unresponsive due to network
> latency.
>
> In general, you shouldn't expect a website to be able to emulate
> locally installed software.
>
>>> Ok, you want a record of people's searches... I am studying Google
>>> Analytics right now.
>>
>> I don't need to know by person, just the aggregate
>> sequences of searches.  Even the sequence of topics
>> would be a useful for this purpose.  If we know that
>> this was a common search sequence:
>>
>>   xxx ->  yyy ->  zzz ->  tada!
>>
>> That could give us ideas where the docs and completion
>> features could be modified to enhance the PDL experience...

I'm not a web programmer but it would seem that a simple
wrapper around the call to google search could save the
words searched for and the return URLs from the results,
say the first page worth along with a session ID.

Cheers,
Chris

> I've never seen a traffic analysis software that tracks anything like
> what you are describing. Most traffic analysis software just track
> which pages are visited and the referral page. Btw, I could not find a
> way to make Google Analytics to track search queries through the
> custom search engine. If there is a way to do it, it sure isn't
> obvious.
>
> Daniel.

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