Google & Ajax - Ouch

[Jeremy]

Man, if google rolls this out permanently, this will really suck.

February 2009 Update:

SEO Poker Search News - Poker Industry Search Engine Figures

[Ridge]

This is disturbing indeed, I would have to think someone would think of a way to get some good stats though, probably be worth paying for.

[PTC]

I think most stats programs will still be able to determine entry pages for each visitor, so if you are optimizing a certain page for a specific term, you will be able to get a clue on whether it is a good term or not. I guess this is sort of a consolation because you still can't really tweak things. You could always do a boatload of A/B testing for similar terms to analyze which variations do better, but that's a ton of work.

[CoolDog]

So essentially that would make Google Analytics useless?

I doubt that Google would do something like that.

[nirva]

I'd imagine Analytics would be the only thing that could interpret the ids in the new URLs making it somewhat of a game-set-match for G.

[Pokerboy]

I'd imagine Analytics would be the only thing that could interpret the ids in the new URLs making it somewhat of a game-set-match for G.

do no evil?

[Tom]

I am sure Google Analytics will be able to track it.

[Jeremy]

Yea I didn't even think of Analytics when I was reading that. There's no way they would cannibalize their own business.....

Although maybe analytics would be the ONLY stats program that would be able to track 100% That would one hell of a monopoly on the stats market.

[Mark]

Where is he getting this information from? I haven't read anything about this from any of the major search blogs nor Matt Cutts.

Mark

[CoolDog]

Where is he getting this information from? I haven't read anything about this from any of the major search blogs nor Matt Cutts.

Mark

Here are some fairly recent news results regarding the matter:
google ajax search - Google News