It uses it for the pagination, which is both irritating and pointless. The only advantage gained by doing this is speed--and they could have that by making the

It uses it for the pagination, which is both irritating and pointless. The only advantage gained by doing this is speed--and they could have that by making the links go to anchors within the page. This kind of thing is far from rare, but it does make me sad when I see real programmers doing it.