Url Parameters and Duplicate Content

A suggestion for Google, Yahoo etc.

[kaled]

It seems to me that there has long been a need for search engines to be able to determine which url parameters are function-related and which are content-related. I do not believe there is any way in which this is currently possible but I have a simple suggestion.

Currently, search engines ignore everything in the url beyond the #. That's ok, but if search engines ignored everything beyond a null parameter, all function-related parameters could be positioned to be ignored too.

For example...

page.php?content_param=test&&function_param=12
page.htm?&function_param=noecho

This would not have any sort of immediate impact, but over time, it could have a dramatic effect if widely adopted.

Of course, there may be a better way of identifying function-related parameters.

Kaled.