Do a search in the regular web search engine and then click on one of the many other vertical search engines and you will see what I am talking about. It will automatically change your query to "t" for some reason. |
I think I might know what the problem is because it's something I had encountered when trying to parse search queries on my site. Sometimes the full search string contains a parameter called aq, and so if the full url of the search is:
http://www.google.com/search?q=entourage+3+18&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
If you don't parse it well, and you try to find the search terms by looking for just "q=", you end up getting "t" instead of the real search query (which was "entourage 3 18")
I think that might be it because I was originally getting an occasional value of just "t" in the list of search terms in my log. |