Do search engines index web pages with equal signs (=) in the URL?
This test will seek to determine if search engines index web pages with equal signs (=) in the URL.
Testing Methodology
The URL for this page contains several equal signs (=).
The URL for this page can be seen in the address bar of most web broswers.
Evaluation Methodology
Search for this web page in these search engines.
A unique string to search for is "AISEFWebPageURLWithEqualSigns".
If this page shows up in the search results, then that search engine most likely indexes web pages with equal signs (=) in the URL.
| Search Engine | Expected Result |
|---|---|
| No | |
| Yahoo | Unknown |
| MSN | Unknown |
| AltaVista | Unknown |
| AllTheWeb | Unknown |
Caveats
This page was put online on 10 May, 2004. It will take some time for each search engine to crawl and index this page to make this test "live."
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