Leaving the iPhone

mattcutts.com

19 pointsvibhavs5 comments

am seriously thinking about leaving the iphone as well. apple's app store policy pisses me off.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1143413

It would be great if the dupe checker removed query strings.

As the HN link you posted demonstrates, query strings quite often determine the content. You can't strip them out without introducing reams of false positives.

Right, but lately there have been quite a few dupes. I've noticed a lot with "?feed=" etc.

What about HN also storing the page title ? Upon submission, strip after "?" to check for dupe, in case of positive, check page titles to confirm.

Or just check, upon first submission, that the query string is irrelevant (fetch pages with and without), and strip it out if it is.

A bit slower, on submission, but that wouldn't be bad ;-)

for me, the interesting thing about this article now is that it is the latest one on cutts' blog; there is no newer one which talks about mahalo.

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