A first taxonomy for “search log junk”

Written by James Robertson, published May 13, 2008

Categorised under: Search tools

Avi Rappoport has written about "search tools junk". To quote:

Search logs contain a lot of weird things, and some of them can have a significant effect on search log analysis. Having looked at tens of thousand lines of search log entries, I offer this first attempt at defining some of the weirdest and least useful kinds of log entry, which I call “Search Log Junk”. Here are the types of junk that I’ve seen most frequently.