Re: queries

marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 93 22:10:03 -0800
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-id: <9302020610.AA06465@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: Anthony Baxter <anthony@aaii.oz.au>
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: queries 
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Anthony Baxter writes:
> In message <9302020520.AA05945@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>you write:
> > So I enter a searchable document, and my browser lets me make a query,
> > resulting in URL, say, 'foo?keyword'.  
> > 
> > The resulting document is also searchable.  So I make another query.
> > 
> > Should the resulting URL be 'foo?keyword?anotherkeyword' or
> > 'foo?anotherkeyword' ... ???
>
> Surely it depends whether the second search is 'refining' the first
> one, or is another search on the original document? If it is
> continuing the first search, then it shouldnt be foo?anotherkeyword,
> as this will mean the first search will be ignored.

Well, I agree, but how does my poor li'l browser tell the difference?

Marc