Meaning of ?t= in URL

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During last days, Midori changed and if you type something in the urlbar automatically Midori goes to http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=midori

So, what does it do? Do you receive some infos from it? Do you automatically sort results by browser? Is it possible to have a complete list of all this kind of... don't know how to call them...? :D

Thank you :)

- Michael

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Guest

There used to be a sort of "top scores" chart for those, showing how many people visited with each tag. It was generally used by people or websites which wanted to show their support for DDG by referring as many people to it as possible, but of course it counted searches, not unique visits.

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dashesy

Re: Meaning of ?t= in URL

2 months ago

I know of t=lm for LinuxMint, it affects the ads and might generate some revenue for referrer.

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Guest

Re: Meaning of ?t= in URL

2 months ago

Also Midori will allow this kind of call ;) Do you also store some data about it or it only causes these kind of changes? :)

Thank you for your answer!

Guest

Re: Meaning of ?t= in URL

2 months ago

@ Above Guest,

I believe they will just store aggregated data such as X user queries came through the 't=midori' or 't=lm' doors as opposed to Y direct queries from the homepage or other methods.

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