google will crawl these as 2 different pages, no? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b3zjr.shtml?src=ip_mp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b3zjr.shtml that seems a real shame. helpfully (?), Google can hide all this a bit with its "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 17 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included" approach... but then that's just sweeping awkward uncool URIs stuff under the rug, IMHO. witness: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer+Page+Three+Teens+b00b3zjr&filter=0 4 distinct pages in the google index, in total... that's because of the use of the query string when linking thru to the iPlayer episode page. seems a shame, following the "don't make me think!" school of web product design, to ask search engine users to parse thru more than one google choice for what amounts to the same page/episode... but hey, that's just me. and i love that it's the Page Three Teens programme and "b00b" in the URL that's brought this up. brings a certain refreshing silliness to the typical "cool URI" proceedings, i feel. best-- --cs -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jonathan Tweed Sent: Mon 4/28/2008 9:15 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] "b00b3zjr" But the right thing to do in this example. A resource shouldn't have different URLs depending on where you click from, so if you can't track the outgoing link for some reason then a query parameter seems correct to me. But as you already know, I do definitely prefer the much nicer http:// www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b3zjr for the URL itself ;-) Cheers Jonathan On 28 Apr 2008, at 21:00, Chris Sizemore wrote: > that query string isn't very cool, tho, is it? > > ;-) > > > --cs > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dan Brickley > Sent: Mon 4/28/2008 8:48 PM > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] "b00b3zjr" > > Jonathan Tweed wrote: > > On 28 Apr 2008, at 16:53, Dan Brickley wrote: > > > >> > >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b3zjr.shtml?src=ip_mp > >> > >> Page Three Teens > >> > >> Whose cool URI is that? > >> > >> We are not worthy :) > > > > Yeah we've been having a good laugh about that one in the PIPs team. > > > > I swear it wasn't deliberate ;-) > > > > We even removed the vowels from pids to stop things like this, > but we > > forgot about the numbers that look like letters... > > Oh, how awful. You must have been horrified when you realised your > mistake. Still, cool URIs don't change so I guess you're stuck with > it! > > Dan > > -- > http://danbri.org/ > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/ > mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
