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I think the single page app trend is coinciding with the growth of javascript, HTML5. It shows that the websites of the future will be more and more like web applications, and they need dynamic UI. The thing that's stopping us the SEO problem, which I hope is no longer problem anymore with snapsearch.

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> the websites of the future will be more and more like web applications, and they need dynamic UI. The thing that's stopping us the SEO problem, which I hope is no longer problem anymore with snapsearch.

This juxtaposition doesn't make sense. If the "dynamic UI" can't be done in a progressively enhanced way, why can it work in a gracefully degrading post-hoc way?

The main point of your software is that the output proves that progressive enhancement was the correct way to build the website in the first place.

Why not just render the public pages of your app out to HTML or use one of the phantom JS services to do it. Then when spiders come up the waterspout have your web server tell them where to go for your sites links.

If you don't ant to do it yourself there are quite a few companies that can help: http://scotch.io/tutorials/javascript/angularjs-seo-with-pre...

There's some important technical and operational differences from SnapSearch and using phantomjs, I answered this in a comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7765731

I don't expect quickbooks or photoshop to be SEO friendly... anyone that expects a web based app to be is doing it wrong. Use shebang urls or working push state loading urls if you want SEO. Also, google does run JS against your rendered content.. just not as often.

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