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prophead··on 'Buy button' to be added to Google search results
Advertisers will also opt-in to using it as a way of differentiating their Ad from competitors.

Google and Advertisers have figured out that constant small changes to search Ads prevent "PPC Blindness" and every new extension gives a temporary incremental lift in regular ad clicks.

prophead··on Googlebot's recent improvements might revolutionize web development
But the onus is still on the developer to choose _what_ gets a unique URL and what does not.

It might be good for user deeplinking capabilities to change the URL every time any type of state change is made (for example sorting a list by date instead of name) - But exposing that many URLs to Google would be bad.

(This is the modern equivalent of the age-old "infinite calendar" problem that Googlebot had to deal with when dynamic calendar apps let you navigate to dates 2 millennia in the future.)