I don’t know why they’re doing this and what do they want. Any ideas? Thanks!
Have you seen this @sam? Odd.
This happens in Google Analytics all the time — the hope is that the searches are published somewhere or an admin visits the link.
I wonder if the same user is spamming these? Could we possibly look for a user who is searching for a url hundreds of times and flag their account?
For a lot of communities it’s uncommon for users to search URLs at all, so it probably doesn’t even need to be hundreds.
It sure is a very frustrating abuse factor, maybe we should auto eliminate spammers from the list, same IP or user, a gazzilion searches
I really would like to see the raw data here
Have not seen this before on our sites
I can send you the raw data for sure; which file is it?
Have been seeing this myself lately – anything I can do to send data along or get it looked at? This thread seems to have died down. Thanks!
Where have you seen it exactly? Can you share a screenshot?
Would a “simple” fix be to just block anonymous users from searching for anything that regexes like a domain?
It looks like you could win by simply banning all searches for .cn domains, somehow, but the actual impact is so low here (and what they are doing is so pointlessly ineffective) it’s hard to justify any engineering effort.
Our site is seeing something similar, but slightly different.
We appear to have some kind of bot performing a daily search on our forum for a few keywords.
Is there a way to block specific search terms?
Or, a way to link a search term to an IP address, then in turn to block that IP?
These, for example, are significantly skewing our search term data analysis:

Capybara is part of discobot. That you see that is a good sign that discobot is working and people are making it through the new user tutorial.
The others I do not recognize.
I am not sure what the issue is honestly with having some random keywords on this list. A bit weird, sure, but you are the only one who sees it.
Maybe some ability to prune this list would be interesting. Eg never show me again how many people searched for capybara on my site. But not a high priority methinks.
Sorry to revive this old topic, I am facing a lot of the same spam.
How would one ban all searches for .cn domains?
I’ve already added a filter to the blocked word list, but searches are still coming through
Not sure what the point of these are, but it’s extremely annoying to see so much spam between search logs 
Nous recevons toujours toutes sortes de résultats de recherche inutiles.
Je suppose qu’il s’agit d’un bot (de recherche) car tout arrive en masse un jour donné, puis disparaît pendant un mois.
J’ai essayé d’ajouter des mots-clés à notre liste de mots bloqués, mais cela ne semble pas empêcher les gens de rechercher ces mots-clés, cela les empêche seulement de publier ces mots.
Je suis sûr que je l’ai déjà demandé, pouvons-nous désactiver la fonction de recherche pour les utilisateurs non connectés ?
Ou quelqu’un a-t-il des suggestions sur la façon de résoudre ou de contourner ce problème ? Nos journaux de recherche sont dénués de sens lorsqu’ils sont remplis de bots/de pourriel ![]()
Parce qu’à l’origine :
Mais maintenant, nos journaux de recherche sont absolument inutiles.
Regardez ceci :
Une seule recherche valide apparaît pendant tout le mois.
C’est au-delà de l’inutile ![]()
J’apprécierais sincèrement tout conseil sur la façon de résoudre ce problème, ou sur la façon d’empêcher les utilisateurs non connectés d’effectuer une recherche.
Il existe un paramètre de site caché nommé rate_limit_search_anon_global qui peut être utilisé pour limiter cela.
Merci @Falco
Attend-il une valeur booléenne ou entière ?
Les détails se trouvent dans site_settings.yml, il attend une valeur entière :







