Search report retention time – Google Search Appliance User Experience Guide User Manual
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Report type
Description
Search Report
The search report contains the following information:
● The number of searches per day
● The average number of searches per hour
● The top 100 (or whatever specified number) keywords and queries and
the number of occurrences of each
If you have enabled ASR, then it will also contain the rank of selected results,
page of selected results, IP address of most frequent users and most popular
URLs based on user clicks.
Advanced Search
Reports
Each entry in an advanced search report represents a single user click in the
search appliance user interface, whether on a search or results page. An entry
is composed of values for the following items:
● Time of the click to the nearest 100th of a second
● The user name of the search user. This can be included only if search
is secure and the user has authenticated.
● IP address of the search user responsible for the click that was
recorded
● Holding place for the session ID, which is always blank
● Click type
● Click start, which is the results page where the user clicked
● Click rank, which is the rank of the result the user clicked
● Click data, which is usually blank
● Query, which is the user query that returned results
● URL of the user click
Search Logs
The logs provide the following information about user search requests:
● Type of user queries
● Parts of the user interface users click
● Speed with which results are served
● Whether users are receiving the result they want
● Whether users would find the Related Queries, KeyMatch, Query
Expansion, and OneBox features useful
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Search report retention time
The search appliance retains information for varying periods in:
● Search
● Search