android-app googlequicksearchbox

android-app://com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

[dstiles]

UA: android-app://com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

Seen a couple of these the past few days. Not only a really stupid UA but the URL is backwards as well!

I've had to open a UA hole just for this. I know it's "good" because a client's customer complained. :(

[dstiles]

SORRY! That should, of course, been Referer NOT UA! :(

[keyplyr]

Yes, when a user searches from the default search displayed on Android 6* (Marshmellow) devices (and not from a launched browser) this app may be seen in the logs or GA as referer.

Earlier thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

[blend27]

URL is backwards...

Well not really, it is a standard naming convention in anything that is Java. Do a search on your(even windows) box for "com.".

[dstiles]

Thanks for the link, keyplr. I don't read that forum so wasn't aware of it.

blend27 - thanks for the info. Not a java fan by any means!

[keyplyr]

Not a java fan by any means!

Not your old java... faster, leaner, better compiled. Without java, your smart phone wouldn't work.

[dstiles]

My smart phone does not work. I don't have any form of mobile phone. :)

[keyplyr]

Bet it's nice and quiet :)

[blend27]

Nah, You could still hear the buzzing of the 500Amp power supply unit in that old tower... all of that .ASP code for sure :)

[dstiles]

500Amp? I remember when, but not on MY desktop. Copper-plated floors, disk drives taller than a small child... Must have cost my employers a fortune - and for only a decade or two's computing. Ah, happy days. :)

[blend27]

disk drives taller than a small child...

Were You'z making CDeeeeez?

[blend27]

something of the same recipe"

android-app://com.pinterest

[keyplyr]

I saw that today. So maybe when searching from the Pinterest app, since it is ported to the Android OS, it gets added to the UA string.