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While working with Gmail the URLs seem to be like https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox. I observed that there is # symbol in URLs. Also Facebook, Twitter will load page content in the similar way without loading entire page it just refreshes required block.

What kind of concept / technology they are using. Can we do so using JQuery? Will search engines can crawl page content in those scenarios?

Samuel Liew
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Ram
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    dupe: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3009380/whats-the-shebang-in-facebook-and-new-twitter-urls-for – marcgg Jan 12 '11 at 15:49

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A jQuery framework that does this is the jQuery.history plugin. It is indeed used (as the comment of marcgg states) by means of AJAX. A tutorial for this can be found here, in its most simple form:

http://www.queness.com/post/328/a-simple-ajax-driven-website-with-jqueryphp

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Can we do so using JQuery?

Yes.

Will search engines can crawl page content in those scenarios?

Check @marcgg comment!

ifaour
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