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intelliot · 01-18-2007, 04:47 PM

I don't think one-to-one search is a good idea. URLs are already one-to-one. If you're worried about page moves, how are you going to verify the page's content? The way Google and other search engines do it now works fine: if you search for a unique phrase in the document, you'll find it. If you type a few words in the document, you'll get the most authoritative one with those words, whether or not it's the exact one you had in mind. IMHO, this is a better system. After all, there are so many web pages and even more unique URLs (for example, database-driven sites), that the ID numbers would be long and barely usable. Even so, they'd be virtually useless since web pages are still accessed by URL anyway.

01-18-2007, 04:47 PM	#4 (permalink)
intelliot Google Guru Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 2,527 Thanks: 15 Thanked 60 Times in 28 Posts	I don't think one-to-one search is a good idea. URLs are already one-to-one. If you're worried about page moves, how are you going to verify the page's content? The way Google and other search engines do it now works fine: if you search for a unique phrase in the document, you'll find it. If you type a few words in the document, you'll get the most authoritative one with those words, whether or not it's the exact one you had in mind. IMHO, this is a better system. After all, there are so many web pages and even more unique URLs (for example, database-driven sites), that the ID numbers would be long and barely usable. Even so, they'd be virtually useless since web pages are still accessed by URL anyway.