[wp-hackers] ALTERNATE_WP_CRON... Is it worth it?

[Otto]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Mike Schinkel <mike at newclarity.net> wrote:
> According to RFC 2616 3.2.3 URI Comparison[1]:
>
> "When comparing two URIs to decide if they match or not, a client SHOULD use a case-sensitive octet-by-octet comparison of the entire URIs (with exceptions that don't matter in this case.)"
>
> So any search engine or bookmarking service following the spec will see the URL with and the URL without as two different URLs.

It's called rel=canonical and it solves that problem for search
engines and bookmarking services that support it. Which is most of
them.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

-Otto