A local Daypop Top 40?

Hey, you perl haxors, someone should make this: A widget that runs once an hour, looking through the last 24h worth of httpd logs, identifying pages that have been arrived at through search engine referrers (i.e., pages that people are looking for right now, using means other than the existing navigation for your site). Then it tallies up the most popular pages among searchers and writes a text file (suitable for ssi) with the top ten — so that I can put a sidebar on my homepage with "Ten most interesting pages on my site right now" as the title; the other with all pages discovered via a search-engine on my site, in order of popularity (with their search-terms?). That would be cool, and it would resolve the interminable debates about which documents were important enough to go on the homepage — let visitors to the site decide.

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