search engines, ? in URL, ISAPI filter solution (Score 1)

wergild asks: "With more and more sites going to a database driven design, and most search engines not indexing anything that contains a query string in it, we're missing alot of content. I've also heard that some search engines won't index certain extensions like php3 or phtml. Is anything being done about this?

Warning, this is an informational, on-topic, product mention.

HREF Tools Corp. came out with an ISAPI filter to do something about this, yes. We called it the Coolness Layer because it makes a dynamic, even database-driven, site use "cool" URLs that omit the path, program name and ?. The filter redirects the incoming URL according to some rules and your application can keep working normally. Of course, it helps if you update your application to create "cool" URLs so that the created links maintain the illusion. We have the defaults all worked out so that this is easy for WebHub programmers (WebHub is our core technology), but it applies to anyone running IIS. And the idea applies to any web server.

More info: http://www.href.com/coolness

Version 2.1 supports multiple domains on the same machine, each with their own redirection rules.

Enjoy.