Google CSE statistics – total dissapointment
They finally added them but in a crippled way. As I was saying before I was expecting detailed data not overall stats and only queries with a certain number of hits. Perhaps all the small sites will see something like:
No queries were sufficiently popular to be listed.
and the reason for that is:
The most likely explanation is that no query occurred sufficiently often to make it “popular”. Our definition of popular tries to balance your curiosity about your Custom Search Engine traffic, and our requirement that we take reasonable steps to protect your users’ privacy.
Why is this happening? Because of the AOL data scandal, where idiots were searching for their own credit card numbers. The probability for this is very small to occur in Google’s CSE but they wash their hands and protect the morons innocents. Why this is pointless? Just because Google said that CSE is a better alternative to an inhouse search engine. Well dear Google CSE team, an inhouse search engine will provide those queries and no one can protect the users from themselves.
What I wanted?
- Number of users
- Queries
- Labels Usage
- Results for the queries
- Queries with no results
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