[wp-hackers] Rewriting search URL

Owen Winkler ringmaster at midnightcircus.com
Sun Apr 24 18:36:15 GMT 2005


Matthew Mullenweg wrote:

> Matthew Thomas wrote:
>
>> If you want cruft-free search result URLs, I suggest aiming for 
>> something like <http://example.com/search?cat+pictures>. Same number 
>> of characters, but the ? tells indexers (and geeky humans, who should 
>> not be neglected) that the page quite probably isn't static writing.
>
> They don't really cost that much more than any other dynamic page in 
> WordPress, if at all. I could see permanent search URIs being useful 
> as aggregators across different categories for a topic. I like how 
> www.a9.com does it as well. (I use them as my primary search engine now.)

Can we get RSS of a search result?  That would be slick.

Owen





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