kaled - 3:12 pm on Nov 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

Is it certain that Google ignores anything after the # in a URL? If so, that would be a completely fine and simple solution.

Am I certain? NO However, I've never noticed duplicate content that appeared to result from such links so I guess I'm 99.9% sure.

There was some discussion on this a day or two ago. I believe it was said that everything after the # is reserved for use by browsers and is ignored by search engines. When I read it, it seemed irrelevant to me so I did not take careful note.

You would have to do some experimentation to see how browsers behave, however, I would not anticipate a problem.

Kaled.

PS
If its purely for internal use within a website, you could consider using the robots meta tag NOFOLLOW with your orginal plan. This would avoid duplicate content issues. Also if you use javascript.write to create links dynamically, these will not be followed by robots.