Comments on: Clean up extra url parameters when searching Google

By: Justin D.

Justin D. — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:51:51 +0000

What is better to have:
example.com/keyword-id/
or
example.com/keyword-id.html

By: Glenn Ferrell

Glenn Ferrell — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:23:04 +0000

Like Javi Moreno, I also wonder about the meaning of the other Google parameters. Some are easy to figure out, like ‘ei’ being the value that is passed when you click on page ’1′, ’2′, etc. but some are a mystery — like ‘aqi’ — what is that ?

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:52:16 +0000

Well Is it possible to get other country results by applying these filters.
Generlly i use hidemyass.com to get to know US specific result.
Can i get the same results by making tweaks in settings in chrome.

By: John

John — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:18:45 +0000

Now if only I could get rid of Google’s weird indexing of my home page index.php?paging=10&pagenum=1. I dont know why its indexing those extra parameters. Quite annoying really. Would this be affecting my rankings???

By: Andrea Pilotti

Andrea Pilotti — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:24:35 +0000

Does this only work for Chrome?

By: Javi Moreno

Javi Moreno — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:12:44 +0000

It is a good tip but i wonder about meaning of url google parameters like fp,ei,aqi,aql,oq,gs_rfa,…

By: Robin Nixon

Robin Nixon — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:06:24 +0000

Hi Matt. While talking about extra parameters, could you please tell me who to contact at Google about having the search engine correctly index eML tags (see http://nixonpublishing.com), which comprise a # followed by a tag name and then a ;. For example a Google search for “nixon publishing” returns entries such as Nobody’s Reading My Blog! #h:4|#center:By Robin Nixon#-#- #center:#copy: 2010 Nixon Publishing#- #br:the only digital publishing system that’s #br:a website and eBook at the and Using eML for Dynamic eBooks #p1:Everything you need to publish your own dynamic eML documents is available on the #url:http://nixonpublishing.com|Nixon Publishing; website in the form. It would be nice if Google understood these tags so that the correct text could be displayed. Do you think that would be possible?

By: Gabihn

Gabihn — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:51:08 +0000

Nice! It’s very useful for me! It really annoyed me, I thoght the extra url parameters is needed, otherwise I cann’t get the right result I need. However, why does Google not do it in default?

By: Reza

Reza — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:38:22 +0000

It would be helpful if this was available in the google SERP’s and not a setting Chrome. I too share URL’s and since some of the URL’s that are pulled out of the results are extremely long, I’ve turned to using short versions or bit urls of the links I send out in my emails. Maybe there can be a share button in the future?

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:27:03 +0000

I never send an email with a search query in it. But I am a nerd. Anyway, if it is a common need, google should add a “share search results [email, facebook, twitter]“-Button to its search page.