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RE: [php-139] Search arch question

From:	Mike Tougeron
Sent on:	Tuesday, September 1, 2009 9:08 AM

There used to be a debate about this around SEO impact. e.g., if the text is in the query string it doesn't count to keyword matching but if it was in the dir structure it would. But I'm pretty sure that it doesn't matter anymore.

Personally, and this is just my opinion, I'd rather use the query string method for search. I think there would be less of a chance of mistake with the creation of the URL. For product URLs or listing pages I prefer something more like /music/bands/country/top10.html.

-Mike

From: [address removed] [mailto:[address removed]] On Behalf Of Robert Gonzalez
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:46 AM
To: [address removed]
Subject: Re: [php-139] Search arch question

Is it really just a matter of how it looks?

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Scott Hildebrand <[address removed]> wrote:

So this project I'm involved with is doing queries this way:
/search/q/music/l3/ukiah/lid/2449750/l2/California/l1/United States/r/300/jt/+/i/+/c/+

It basically amounts to search being the controller, and then the rest are key/value pairs. When there's no value it ends up just being "+"

I think that's fugly and I'd rather see a traditional URL:
/search?q=music&l3=ukiah&lid=2449750&l2=California&l1=United States&r=300&jt=&i=&c=

Is there any reason why a traditional URL would be better, or am I just outnumbered by the other engineers and out of luck?

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