blend27 - 12:45 am on Feb 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

I am going to take a chunk from 3.4

-- The characters slash ("/") and question mark ("?") may represent data within the query component. Beware that some older, erroneous implementations may not handle such data correctly when it is used as the base URI for relative references (Section 5.1), apparently because they fail to distinguish query data from path data when looking for hierarchical separators. However, as query components are often used to carry identifying information in the form of "key=value" pairs and one frequently used value is a reference to another URI, it is sometimes better for usability to avoid percent-encoding those characters. --

Now... does that brake the Google appliance indexing/desktop or those are absolute?

And then again, I have not seen Direct response from G at this point here, so may be it is a fluke...