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Re:Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-base... by wwweston on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:10AM (#19884843)
Once upon a time you could get this information from the HTTP_REFERER header, since search terms were essentially encoded in the query string portion of the URL the search results showed up on.

Not sure how that holds up these days.

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Re:Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-base... by harianus on Saturday May 11, 2019 @07:02AM (#19885597)
It's removed by Google, all search result clicks go through an intermediate URL that removes the keywords. You can have some information from the Google URL [1].

[1] https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/107179

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