14 votes
Make search results linkable (GET rather than POST)
Sooner or later people will start asking questions that have already been asked. Not being able to link to search results is weird because people are used to using Google or other search engine where a search result can be linked to with a URL of the form /search?q=foo. Not being able to demonstr... more
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simonw
This should definitely be the default - search results that are generated with a POST cannot be bookmarked or easily shared with other people.
dpark
Shouldn't that be the default search mechanism, though? Or at least provide a "link to this search" link on the page. With the current setup, people have to manually construct query URLs, and they have to know that 's' is the search term. How would anyone be expected to know that?