Actually Google will index pages with a ? but it won't give them a pagerank, so they are in the index, but since you don't have a pagerank they will show up last in searches, unless you have keywords no one else does. I recently wrote an ISAPI filter to do search engine URL conversions. eg: /page.asp/x/1/y/2 translates into /page.asp?x=1&y=2 You can find it here: http://www.cfdev.com/products/ it's free and open source. _____________________________________________ Pete Freitag (pfreitag at cfdev.com) CTO, CFDEV.COM ColdFusion Developer Resources http://www.cfdev.com/ -----Original Message----- From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Jason Cartwright Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:50 AM To: thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: RE: [thelist] Safe URL saga I've noticed this. Google hasn't touch any of the pages with a '?' in the URL on my ASP-based sites. Very annoying. I'm going to be using this handy tool to get rid of the ?s on my new Win2k/ASP.net site - http://www.pstruh.cz/help/urlrepl/library.htm Jason www.jasoncartwright.com > -----Original Message----- > From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org > [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Fascia > Sent: 05 June 2002 16:39 > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org > Subject: [thelist] Safe URL saga > I also noticed that google DOES index many php based URL's > with ? and & in the URL... > > try searching for "php url" and some of the php.net and > zend.com urls definately have variables in there -- For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and archive of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !