[h2ojunkie]

Just a thought, but it occurred to me that every time a user clicks on one of the "most searched" keywords on forum home it is actually increasing the count for the # of times that term/phrase was searched for, thereby falsely inflating the true number of searches people did on the term.

Since people are likely to click on them because...they can....it would seem those "most searched" words would be inflated and always remain showing in the top 20 most searched.

Maybe append a new parameter to the end of the link to each of those search terms something like (searchstats=donotcount for example). Where if that parameter is passed when clicking on the link, the searchstats plugin knows not to add to the count for that word/phrase. This way the only words counted in the search stats are terms people actually searched for on their own.

Anyway, just an idea. That was a change on made on mine.