As I browse, I compulsively select paragraphs of text. I imagine that this habit could cause some interesting data problems, if done on a site which tries to track such actions.<p>Does anyone else highlight as they read without searching, i.e. how valid is their assumption: <i>We all know, or at least suspect, that people on our sites are highlighting text, right clicking on it and selecting "Search Google For..."</i>
This is smart. Wish I'd thought of this. I love hacking GA to do fun stuff. My recent favourite is tracking real page load time (i.e. not just server response times but actual user load times in the wild).
How about, when someone highlights text on your site, it immediately searches itself and presents the results in the margin? (Without causing the page to reflow or otherwise getting in the way.) Perhaps with links to search Google/Wikipedia/etc as well? Too creepy?
It's awesome is what it is. I wonder if you can pull the 1,2 and 3 word terms via the Google Analytics API? I'd betempted to use that data to generate popular search pages / navigation and internal link changes.