624054 - Searches from URL bar should include source attribute

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 596439

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

We currently don't have a way to track the new search location (URL bar searches, bug 565966) on the server side.

Currently, we do the following:

* Searches from toolbar search field: Normal search string
* Searches from Firefox Start home page: adds "&source=hp" to the search string
* Searches from Location Bar: same as toolbar search

Ideally, searches from the Location Bar should have a source attribute, I propose we add "&source=lb" for searches done here.

This is important for a couple of different reasons:
* Knowing what the percentage split between the two fields is for revenue purposes
* Be able to track the trend of people using the URL bar for search (which we hypothesize is becoming more common)

Comment 1

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

Requesting blocking since this is the last part of the changes done to the URL bar to enable search — the rest of the work was done in bug 565966 and bug 586821. 

Should be extremely low risk, and hopefully not a lot of work (string concatination? ;) as far as I can tell.