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A comment on Google search parameters in 2012.

Re:Google search parameters in 2012 by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday June 10, 2012 @08:51AM (#4090908)
It irritates me that all this stuff is sent in the URL. Personally, I would put the query (and query-related) things in the URL, then use POST parameters for the stuff that the user needn't see.
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Re:Google search parameters in 2012 by mthq on Sunday June 10, 2012 @08:55AM (#4090916)
Well that would break back and forward history navigation as browsers require you te explicitly resend POST parameters.
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Re:Google search parameters in 2012 by VMG on Sunday June 10, 2012 @09:18AM (#4090968)
Also the possibility to bookmark and to send a link to somebody else.

Also after all, you want to GET the search result, not POST anything.

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Re:Google search parameters in 2012 by madrona on Sunday June 10, 2012 @04:15PM (#4092063)
What's the harm of sending it in the URL? That it looks a little uglier? Using POST instead of GET defeats bookmarking or linking ability.
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