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The links could still be rendered as regular urls and onclick handlers used to dynamically update the page and set the fragment for bookmarks.


Isn't that what they are doing?


No, all links are hashbanged. Probably simplifies the implementation a bit because they only need one method of loading pages (Ajax) but I don't think it's particularly friendly.


I think the two methods result in the exact same thing. Especially since the crawler won't see any raw HTML pages anyway - all links are hashbanged, and have to be crawled via the Google parameter rewriting scheme.


Except non-JavaScript (or limited JS) browsers see nothing at all. Graceful degradation in this situation isn't all that difficult, they just chose not to do it.




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