It is common knowledge that organic traffic is auto populated in Google Analytics reports via a default search engine list installed by Google. It is also quite possible to add smaller search engines manually into the tracking code snippet through the Add Organic Method.<\/p>\n
All this is fine when Google itself does it for us.<\/p>\n
The Analytics team updates the list to reflect new or more popular search engines. Effective from the 1st of this month, a few search engines were added to the existing list. The newer ones part of the default list are rakuten.co.jp, biglobe.ne,jp, goo.ne.jp and startsiden.no\/sok.<\/p>\n
Besides fixing updates, Google also fixed prolonged issues regarding recognizing search engines. Prior to the change if a URL contained the word \u201csearch\u201d and a query parameter \u201cq\u201d, Google would have attributed it to search engine search.com often leading to inaccurate reports. But now, the logic seems to have changed in a way that customized search engines will not be shown as search.com.<\/p>\n
The Analytics Team is also explicitly adding known large customized search engines with \u201csearch\u201d in them to their default list of known search engines.<\/p>\n
How does this affect user data?<\/p>\n
When you begin receiving a large amount of organic traffic, you will see your search.com organic traffic going down. Besides, other search engines begin to appear as a source. Google or Bing organic results remain unchanged.<\/p>\n
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