[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M. Bishop), 19 Dec 2006 19:43:41 +0000]: > For URLs like Google things look much better in the index with: > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q="wwwoffle is great" > > than with: > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22wwwoffle+is+rubbish%22 > > The first one is much more readable than the second one.
And so much more reasonable - surely there won't be any search results for the latter! (In my case, though, I would prefer http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22wwwoffle+is+great%22 as I am only really interested in the URLs if I want to paste it somewhere else: In lynx ("advanced" mode), the URL for the currently highlighted link is shown in the last line, but long URLs may not fit into a single line. Copying the URL is therefore impractical for long URLs if I have to go through that displayed URL instead of being able to rely on the URL in the index. Also, at least on my system there are strange effects when using lynx on the console with unicode (utf-8?) characters in the URL. E.g., http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen is not really less readable than what is displayed, where %C3 appears as a capital "A" with tilde, and %BC as the fraction 1/4. But these problems may be specific to the browser or installation.) Best regards, Albert.
