tedster - 12:34 am on Oct 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

I can easily see this would benefit ALL search engines and many end users. Taking the user directly to content that's only available in a modified page state would be a good thing.

Many/most webmasters will never have need for AJAX. But for those who use it, making that content more crawlable is a very sane goal.

Could possibly change it's original intent AFTER the rest of web decides to use it how the web wishes, instead of how Goog wishes.

This proposal comes to meet a real need that a portion of the web has already decided on. Not everything Google does is evil.

I'd also like to see a proposal from Bing about the challenge of indexing AJAX modified pages.