Receptional_Andy - 11:56 am on Feb 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

Bah. Another proprietary element to fix an underlying technical problem.

That said, it's in the toolbox. I'm curious as to whether this would work for pagination, but the FAQ implies otherwise:

Is it okay if the canonical is not an exact duplicate of the content? We allow slight differences, e.g., in the sort order of a table of products. We also recognize that we may crawl the canonical and the duplicate pages at different points in time, so we may occasionally see different versions of your content. All of that is okay with us.

Page 2 is obviously going to be substantially different from page one, but this element would be ideal for that scenario.