Tracking Bing in Google Analytics

[travelin cat]

I've noticed that GA considers Bing to be a "referring site" rather then a "Search Engine". As such, the Keyword Dimension shows "(not set)".

Anyone else seeing this? Is this deliberate on Google's end so we can't track keywords in Analytics?

[IanTurner]

My guess is that they just haven't updated their SE definition files yet.

[travelin cat]

yeah, I guess they're in no rush to do so ;)

[badbadmonkey]

Grrr.

[wolfadeus]

C'mon, google - has been a week now. I get respectable traffic from bing, but don't know the keywords because Google is acting childishly and ignores Bing.

[travelin cat]

Looks like Google corrected this sometime on the 5th. We're receiving data now with Bing considered a search engine.

[primediart]

I dont consider Bing as a search engine. it gives wierd results sometimes.. may be because its in a beta version thats why.. moreover, its a decision engine (thats what it calls)

[tangor]

I'm not a starry-eyed M$ guy, and there's a bit more to be done with bing... but I think they're on the right track. And "decision engine" is at least more honest than "google squared". :)

[cquyf]

my web have some click from bing,but i do not no the key words!

[inbound]

Seems that the change for referral to organic in Google Analytics may have fooled people (O.K. possibly just me) into thinking Bing was not as consistent with traffic as it actually is:

[webmasterworld.com...]

Any stats posted in that thread would help shed light on how well Bing is holding up.