Archive for November 2011
GET, POST, and safely surfacing more of the web
November 2, 2011 | 
Author Google continuously improving crawling and indexing capabilities of flash files. Google search engine also started crawling forms where it makes sense.
Google generally advise to use GET for fetching resources a page needs, and this is by far their preferred method of crawling. Caffeine has started experiments to rewrite POST requests to GET, and while this remains a valid strategy in some cases, often the contents returned by a web server for GET vs. POST are completely different. Read More
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