That’s would be too bad. I used to get referral urls that had the search criteria embedded in them. It was nice to know.
I might be mistaken then. I haven’t paid close attention to analytics, but I’m not aware of any changes.
Yes, I’ve had a bump here and there,
If you had a bump on the last week, compared to the past few weeks, then it means it works as intended. I’m not sure about all the lists where the game is bumped, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it.