Posted by Tim Roberts on 11/16/05 08:26

Geoff Berrow <blthecat@ckdog.co.uk> wrote:

>Message-ID: <ehtdn1lph2c5hngfhhrtr86cp799f2ncbf@4ax.com> from Tim
>Roberts contained the following:
>
>>They cannot invent query
>>strings, they only follow the links on existing pages, but they will
>>certainly follow links with query strings attached.
>
>Most pundits seem to say that search engines will not follow query
>strings (e.g. http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol2/search_no11.htm )

Do you mean, "One pundit seems to say"? ;)

>Do you have definitive information on this?

Only empirical evidence. I tried a half dozen random Google searches, and
every one included a query string in the top ten hits.

The Wikipedia entry on Google says that it has trouble indexing URLs with
query strings with more than six parameters.
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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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