[ic] Removing '?' and '&' from the URL for search engine submission, Generate Static

Dan Browning interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Apr 26 19:02:01 2002


At 02:17 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > Thanks, Christopher.  According to
> > http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/23/index1a_page3.html?t
> >w=e-business
> >, Google and Inktomi are the *only* search engines that can handle ?
>and &.
> >
>
>
>That doesn't sound bad... Consider for example that currently, 90.23% of
>my search engine links come from google or the inktomi network.  So, at
>least for now, im not worried.

Have you considered that maybe that is *why* 90% of your links come from 
google/inktomi instead of the others?  However, I'll be the first to say 
that these days it is true that one can almost forsake all others and cling 
only to google.  I do. :-)

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