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Check that visitors from google drive and other google sub sites are not counted as google search

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#4339 opened on Nov 25, 2013

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Description

links from google drive and other non-search google products (gmail, docs, forms) should not appear as "Google" in Search engines but as website referrers.

From email: I shared a google form having a link to a piwik tracked webpage .. and in the analytics it was showing all the views from the search engine.

Referrer email from Google properties appear to be: http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%XXXXX%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQxxx

Let's check these are not counted as search engine + add unit test to make sure it always work in the future!

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Domain
analyticsbackend
Issue type
bug
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
mostly clear
Prerequisites
basic knowledge of PHPunderstanding of referrer handling
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
60
Research direction
Look at the referrer detection logic in the Matomo core, likely in files like core/Tracker/Referrer.php or similar. The issue describes a URL pattern from Google Drive (http://www.google.com/url?q=...). Modify the detection to exclude such URLs from search engine classification. Add a unit test to verify the behavior. Existing tests can be found in tests/ directory for referrer parsing.