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Yeah, while search engines do tend to index less querystring based content due to the difficulty in determining when they are just indexing the same page over and over, and of course other more nefarious problems, I've never heard it put down to a simple 2 or 3 properties rule. Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen On 12/10/05, Tim Bray <tbray@t...> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2005, at 6:49 AM, Chris Burdess wrote: > > > Costello, Roger L. wrote: > >> (1) The above URLs (I believe) are expressing the same thing - > >> they are identifying the same resource. So which is "better"? > > > > For practical purposes, the first is better, since there is no > > limit to the number of name components. In the second example, you > > can have at most 2 or 3 parameters before search engines give up > > and stop indexing your resource. > > Independent of which is better, this hypothesis about search engines > is not supported by any evidence I know. -Tim > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > >
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