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URI Strings

What's wrong with this URI string?

         

pageoneresults

2:26 am on Apr 16, 2005 (gmt 0)

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[example.com...]

Please, just humor me for a bit. Do you see anything wrong with the above URI string? Not from a syntax standpoint, but from spidering and usability standpoints. What are the pitfalls of this type of URI naming structure?

And yes, there are double and triple underscores in that string. In some instances, there could be up to 6-15 words in the string separated by a plethora of underscores, commas and more underscores.

mack

5:00 am on Apr 16, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I cant see anything imediatly wrong with it. But I guess it is possible this sort of naming may invoke some form of flag that an seo on steroids is on the loose.

The algo may look for double underscores for example.

All gueswork though, nothing to suport what I say because I havent came across this. (yet)

Mack.

Rollo

7:09 pm on Apr 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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It's ugly.

pageoneresults

7:37 pm on Apr 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Thanks mack.

Rollo, could you expand a little more on "it's ugly"?

Anybody out there using this type of URI structure?

Easy_Coder

3:03 am on Apr 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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isn't the comma a reserved special character?

scroll down to RFC 2396 ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt (page 7 section 2.2)

iamlost

6:11 am on Apr 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I agree that they look butt ugly so there must be a purpose ...

Note that I have no idea about the ",". That aside a couple of possibilities:

* One: using various delimiter numbers of underscores for parsing different parts of the url for data retrieval/replacement.
Perhaps by JS?
Did you look at the scripts on these pages?

* Two: it looks a lot like a python xhtmlhook (embed python code in HTML document) but never seen used.
Are these pages xhtml?