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   Re: [xml-dev] Best Practice for URI construction?

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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@textuality.com> 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
>
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