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Can you break out the people searching for "lesswrong" or "less wrong"?
From http://siteanalytics.compete.com/lesswrong.com/
less wrong 38.66% reversed stupidity is not intelligence 7.41% akrasia less wrong 6.35% goodhart's law 4.86% hyperplane perceptro... 4.86%
I wonder if people are hearing the phrase "reversed stupidity is not intelligence" and then coming here, or have already been here and read that article and are trying to find their way back.
That's percentage of all hits-via-google, not new users, right? So it's not surprising that lots of them are "using Google as an address bar." But 16% of people with a google analytics cookie come via google and we'd like to know how many of them are really new users.
As you say, it is not obvious for some search terms whether the users are new.
Incidentally, alexa has wildly different (though less plausible) search terms and numbers.
I frequently use Google for a specific search term on websites that I'm already generally reading. Google is especially helpful for finding statements in comments threads.
Do you generally clear your cookies, too?
It depends on which machine. I don't do so as frequently as I should on my home laptop (maybe once a month or so) but frequently also use the campus library machines which automatically clear all cookies after each session.