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The article's main insight: "URLs based on hierarchical names are actually the URLs of search results rather than the URLs of the entities in those search resul

• mjevans 9y ago
  In the most technical sense both are searches encoded in to a URI form. The search for the (hopefully) GUID just happens to be for a specific mechanical object, while the other is describing the taxonomic categorization of what a matching item would look like.
  • always_good 9y ago
    Though their "/search?kind=book&title=moby-dick&shelf=american-literature" example is fundamentally different in that all filters (being URL query parameters) are optional and can be arbitrarily combined. I didn't quite understand the point of the hierarchal "search URL" when you have the /search one implemented, and they go on to say you could implement both if you have the time and energy.
    • kalleboo 9y ago
      The Internet Archive WayBack machine kind of has an optional filter in a traditional URL scheme - you can replace the date in a WayBack machine URL with an asterisk as a wildcard and you'll get either the only entry it can find or a list of dates https://web.archive.org/web/20000831072728/http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu:80/jln/wwdc97.html https://web.archive.org/web/20000831072728/http://charlotte.... vs https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu:80/jln/wwdc97.html https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu:...