[WEB4LIB] RE: Log analysis tools - tracking internal search k eywords and result

[Allen Mullen]

An elegant simple, yet effective solution.  My thanks to Jerry and the
others who made suggestions privately.  You folks have helped me a great
deal!  Allen

-----Original Message-----
From: jkuntz at rcls.org [mailto:jkuntz at rcls.org]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 4:44 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Log analysis tools - tracking internal search
keywords and result



Allen, et al:
    Believe it not, I've been loading the KidsClick! [search
engine for kids] search logs into NoteTab Pro (an exhanced NotePad
replacenent)and have just been doing a Find Next command on the
character string "<0>".
    All legitimate terms--and most are misspellings, typos, and
profanity--are noted by hand in another text file. That resulting
text file is emailed to our KidsClick! volunteer contributors.
Jerry Kuntz
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org
--- Original Message ---
Allen Mullen <amullen at tsl.state.tx.us> Wrote on 
Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:59:19 -0800 (PST)
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Hi folks,

I've been researching web log analysis tools looking for an application
that
will analyse and summarize search keywords used by users on new
search
service I will be bringing online in a couple months.  I'm particularly
interested in tracking those hits with zero results so that this
information
can be used to improve the records searched.  While a number
of applications
will report on search terms used to find your site using search
engines, the
only app that appears it may fit the bill for us is NetTracker.

Does anyone have experience using NetTracker for this purpose?
 Other apps
to suggest?  I have experience using both WUsage and WebTrends
and have
dabbled with other tools in the past but neither of these do
what I am
seeking.  If it is helpful, the server is a Sun running Solaris
7.0 and
Apache (ver?) and my desktop is Win95.

Thanks in advance for your consideration!

     Allen Mullen - Developer, Networked Services
     Texas State Library and Archives Commission
     Library Resource Sharing
     512/463-5534 (voice)         512/936-2306 (fax)
                     allen.mullen at tsl.state.tx.us
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