Date: 04/18/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: xml, web, google

An example of wrong usage of AJAX aka XmlHttpRequest based web applications - TinkingTeam Corporate Website. Here the menu content is dynamically fetched using Ajax. This is bad because: Search engines like google cannot see it. Users cannot bookmark the pages. It doesn't indicate anything is happening, which can be bothering over slow connections. This can be remedied [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-not-to-use-ajax/