Vistors and Ratings from "google-" ??!!

LFrank

Joined: 2005-02-19
Posts: 1023
Posted: Thu, 2006-02-02 08:09

Hello All,

since 2.1-soon - and activated Rating Blocks onmy Gallery - I find quite some traffic/visitors rating images on my gallery. As there is no tool to find the ratings, I've checked the SQL-tables and find (within three days) about 200 visitors like

google662497248 	66.249.72.48:af26a291b02611b619f29585bbb19ac9

rating specific items.
Any idea where these visitors are coming from? I was trying Google image search and found a few of my images listed there, but couldn't reproduce the refering - or the direct ability to rate.

Any light on this would be appreciated :)

CU
Lutz

Gallery version = 2.1-soon core 1.0.22
PHP version=5.1.2 apache2handler
Webserver=Apache/2.2.0 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.1 mod_ssl/2.2.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a
Database=mysql 5.0.18-nt-log
Gallery-URL=http://lf-photodesign.de
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Thu, 2006-02-02 08:17

is google662497248 the sessinId ? if so, it's google itself, crawling your site.
 
LFrank

Joined: 2005-02-19
Posts: 1023
Posted: Thu, 2006-02-02 10:57

Yes, the sessionId - hmm - wouldn't have expected a bot rating my items ;)

Gallery version = 2.1-soon core 1.0.22
PHP version=5.1.2 apache2handler
Webserver=Apache/2.2.0 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.1 mod_ssl/2.2.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a
Database=mysql 5.0.18-nt-log
Gallery-URL=http://lf-photodesign.de
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Thu, 2006-02-02 13:24

you can file a feature request to prevent letting search engines rate your items.
 
rizzo
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Joined: 2005-11-10
Posts: 29
Posted: Thu, 2006-02-02 15:37

I'm on it
 
rizzo
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Joined: 2005-11-10
Posts: 29
Posted: Fri, 2006-02-03 21:49

I'm just committed a check so that the rating module uses GalleryUtilities::identifySearchEngine(), so that if the HTTP_USER_AGENT is a known web crawler, the rating won't be processed.

Update when you can and let me know how it works for you.

PS: if you want to know which crawlers that function checks for, the source file is viewable at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gallery/gallery2/modules/core/classes/GalleryUtilities.class?only_with_tag=HEAD&view=markup.
 
LFrank

Joined: 2005-02-19
Posts: 1023
Posted: Sat, 2006-02-04 08:59

I've updated this morning - CVS mentioned the update of the rating module. Will check and feedback asap.
(Should be easy to see - got 600 ratings yesterday night :( via google...)

Gallery version = 2.1-soon core 1.0.22
PHP version=5.1.2 apache2handler
Webserver=Apache/2.2.0 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.1 mod_ssl/2.2.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a
Database=mysql 5.0.18-nt-log
Gallery-URL=http://lf-photodesign.de
 
LFrank

Joined: 2005-02-19
Posts: 1023
Posted: Sat, 2006-02-04 09:04

Rizzo, btw ...

... I sometimes notice that the stars arn't displayed on certain albums after reloading of the page - only the blue bar.
Any idea why this happens?

Thanks,
Lutz

Gallery version = 2.1-soon core 1.0.22
PHP version=5.1.2 apache2handler
Webserver=Apache/2.2.0 (Win32) DAV/2 PHP/5.1.1 mod_ssl/2.2.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8a
Database=mysql 5.0.18-nt-log
Gallery-URL=http://lf-photodesign.de