Re: /#!hmm="crawler finds a pretty AJAX URL (that is, a URL containing a #! hash fragment)"

On 4/21/13 4:17 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 21 April 2013 04:26, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org 
> <mailto:perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>> wrote:
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>     Wondering about this recommendation from da G ;)
>     https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started
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>     "Step-by-step guide
>     1. Indicate to the crawler that your site supports the AJAX
>     crawling scheme
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>     The first step to getting your AJAX site indexed is to indicate to
>     the crawler that your site supports the AJAX crawling scheme. The
>     way to do this is to use a special token in your hash fragments
>     (that is, everything after the # sign in a URL): hash fragments
>     have to begin with an exclamation mark. For example, if your AJAX
>     app contains a URL like this:
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>     www.example.com/ajax.html#key=value
>     <http://www.example.com/ajax.html#key=value>
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>     it should now become this:
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>     www.example.com/ajax.html#!key=value
>     <http://www.example.com/ajax.html#%21key=value>
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>     When your site adopts the scheme, it will be considered "AJAX
>     crawlable." This means that the crawler will see the content of
>     your app if your site supplies HTML snapshots."
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> This is the so-called "hash bang" idea
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> Jeni wrote a piece on this with some background, and representing her 
> point of view
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> http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/154
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> Twitter famously started using them in their profiles, then changed 
> their mind.
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> It's a slightly controversial topic and I think most linked data 
> people consider it to be an anti pattern
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> I personally do not find it compelling :)
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Google seems to be hell bent on redefining what the Web is. Basically, 
it believes its a Web of HTML and Javascript.

For now, Google is dominant enough to tinker around as it sees fit as 
"Google Juice" remains very important to Web resource discovery.

Personally, we implement the good, bad, and ugly en route to 
enlightenment. Thus, we will implement this rubbish if need be.


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