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Re: <Weird unicode characters thread issue>
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:18 pm
by SYSTEM
Andrew Lee wrote:I just checked the web logs, and they are legit searches. Some characteristics I have discerned:
1) They are mostly from different IP addresses with no discernible pattern.
2) They have different web browser IDs, from AppleWebKit to Firefox Gecko.
3) They are mostly not clustered in time.
I'm not sure what we can do about them. Suggestions?
Could it be that there simply is a link to such a search somewhere (and people are clicking it from time to time)?
Re: <Weird unicode characters thread issue>
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 1:37 am
by __philippe
Andrew Lee wrote:...I'm not sure what we can do about them. Suggestions?
(fixed smiley URL)
Re: <Weird unicode characters thread issue>
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 2:51 am
by Andrew Lee
Could it be that there simply is a link to such a search somewhere (and people are clicking it from time to time)?
A google for the text didn't turn up anything obvious.
Even assuming there's a link somewhere that links to this search, there's still no easy solution to this problem other than manual intervention at our end.
Re: <Weird unicode characters thread issue>
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:20 am
by Midas
Andrew Lee wrote:Suggestions?
- Do such queries return any results at all? If negative, then they're just channel noise that can be filtered out...
Re: <Weird unicode characters thread issue>
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 4:40 pm
by Andrew Lee
Do such queries return any results at all? If negative, then they're just channel noise that can be filtered out...
Actually, the current logic already does. But this led me to find out a quirk in the search logic that returned results for that particular search. That quirk was fixed, and the search no longer returned any results, so it should no longer appear in the popular search list.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Re: <Weird unicode characters thread issue>
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 3:05 am
by __philippe
Minor annoyance neatly nipped in the bud...
Cheers for a skillful teamwork !
