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		brown9-2 on Feb 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Breaking the web with hash-bangs Can you clarify something - what benefit does the #! syntax give your site specifically? The reason for using this seems to be misunderstood by the original article.

miniatureape on Feb 9, 2011 [–]

The #! syntax alerts google's crawler that the site supports their ajax crawling scheme [1].

The fragment (part after the hash), in general, is used to denote a specific state (or "page") in a single page ajax site.

[1] http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...

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