How to ge the search engine name from a web page using javascript?

Question

How to identify the search engine using javascript? Say for example if the site has been displayed using the google search, I should get the value as google, similarly yahoo,bing etc.. Is there any written js code for doing so?

Answer 1

In general you can use Google analytics .

In JavaScript , you can use document.referrer :

Returns the URI of the page that linked to this page.

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The value is an empty string if the user navigated to the page directly (not through a link, but, for example, via a bookmark). Since this property returns only a string, it does not give you DOM access to the referring page.