[Django]-Logging Django Haystack search keyword

I wanted to do something similar so I created an app named search

search/models.py

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

class SearchTerm(models.Model):
    query = models.CharField(
        verbose_name = _(u'Search Term'),
        max_length = 255,
        default = None
    )

class SearchQuery(models.Model):
    term = models.ForeignKey(
        SearchTerm
    )
    user = models.ForeignKey(
        User,
        blank = True, 
        null = True,
    )
    when = models.DateTimeField(
        verbose_name = _(u'Date Searched'),
    )

search/urls.py

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^search/', 'search.views.search', name="search"),
)

then of course in my project urls I added the following rule:

url(r'^', include('search.urls')),

search/views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, render, redirect
from haystack.forms import ModelSearchForm, SearchForm
from haystack.views import SearchView
from search.models import SearchQuery, SearchTerm
import datetime

def search(request):
    if 'page' not in request.GET :
        try :
            st, created = SearchTerm.objects.get_or_create(query=request.GET['q'])
            sq = SearchQuery()
            sq.term = st
            sq.user = request.user
            sq.when = datetime.datetime.now()
            sq.save()
        except :
            pass

    view = SearchView()
    return view(request)

if 'page' not in request.GET so that only on the first page of search results, a SearchQuery is saved

each SearchQuery is unique in the DB.

each SearchQuery for a SearchTerm is recorded with additional info such as user (nullable) and when the term was searched.

view = SearchView() and return view(request) make it so that aftera a SearchQuery is recorded, the default haystack views get called for that request.