Unique search count

[The Little Guy]

I am trying to get the top 10 most popular searches from my database, I have the following:

 

select *, count(*) c FROM searches group by search_query order by c desc

 

This will get the top ten, but it will also get values for people that searched for the same thing 2+ times. So if 2 people search for "Monkey", and one person searches for it 5 times and the other searches for that 3 times, it should show it was searched for 2 times.

 

I am not sure how to format that query....

 

 

mysql> explain searches;
+--------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+----------------+
| Field        | Type             | Null | Key | Default           | Extra          |
+--------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+----------------+
| search_id    | int(10) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL              | auto_increment |
| ip           | int(10) unsigned | YES  |     | NULL              |                |
| search_query | varchar(100)     | YES  |     | NULL              |                |
| search_date  | timestamp        | YES  |     | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP |                |
+--------------+------------------+------+-----+-------------------+----------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

 

[Illusion]

you should count IPs

 

select  search_query , count( distinct ip) c FROM searches group by search_query order by c desc

[The Little Guy]

perfect!

 

Thanks for the help!