[ic] IC and search engines

[Kevin Walsh]

> I'm sure many of you know that most search engines will not spider sites
> that have ?'s in the URL.  Has anyone tried implementing a setup where
> IC will not assign a unique id until the first item is  placed in the
> cart?  Or any other methods of getting rid of the ? in the URL.
>
> BTW, this would also be handy for search engines like google who will
> spider sites with ?'s but it caused the problem of everyone entering
> your site from google with have the same ID.
>
Interchange will spot that the incoming user is using a session
ID that belongs to someone else, and will silently assign a new one.

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