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The author also completely misses the business case: putting a single gateway through which Google can index makes sense for huge content generators. Sites lik
by sunchild 16y ago
The author also completely misses the business case: putting a single gateway through which Google can index makes sense for huge content generators. Sites like Twitter actually have some leverage with Google, as the Twitter firehose is more "real time" than Google's index. Using the #! allows Twitter tight control over Google's access to content. As for Gawker, I suspect they overestimate their leverage with Google, and have no similar business case.
- Isofarro 16y ago"The author also completely misses the business case: putting a single gateway through which Google can index makes sense for huge content generators." That's called a domain name. www.lifehacker.com is a single gateway to all of lifehacker's blog posts. Then you use the path part of the URL to specify which post or collection of posts you want. Twitter hasn't leveraged anything. The tweet URLs without the hash-bangs were more accessible to Google. You want tight-control as to which user-agents can see which set of tweets - that's what the Controller is for on the server.
- ceejayoz 16y agositemap.xml and robots.txt offer much, much more control over Google's crawling, and require essentially no dev work.