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

[Dan Browning]

At 02:43 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:00:59AM -0700, Dan Browning wrote:
> > At 09:17 PM 4/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > >On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:45:08PM -0700, Dan Browning wrote:
> > >> Fellow Interchangers,
> > >>
> > >> I recently filed a bug for the Generate Static feature (
> > >> http://interchange.redhat.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=419 ).  (It is also
> > >> pasted below).  Please comment on that if you would like.  Otherwise, I
> > >> would like to ask what you are doing to submit sites to search engines
> > >that
> > >> require that '?' and '&' are not in the URL.  Are you using Static
> > >> generation?
> > >
> > >I'm not convinced it's an issue.  Google doesn't seem to care, at least
> > >for top level pages.  If you get static pages indexed, you then lose
> > >the referer and that seems more of an issue.  We use web server
> > >rewrites and include minivend in ssi where a client gets really
> > >concerned about bcentral reports.  :-)
> > >--
> > >Christopher F. Miller, Publisher
> > >cfm@maine.com
> >
> > Thanks, Christopher.  According to
> > http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/23/index1a_page3.html?tw=e-business
> > , Google and Inktomi are the *only* search engines that can handle ? and &.
>
>
>How quaint.  Hell, I was just comparing what was in a antigen database
>with a catalog; it was all robot generated.  But maybe this is true of
>the big general engines.  Must be right, it was written by someone
>from Maine.  :-)
>
>Anyway, you will probably get more out of web server rewrites over the
>long haul.

I agree, has anyone seen a posted Rewrite regex complex enough to do what 
we're discussing?

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