Amazon has been awarded a patent on the practice of "including a search string at the end of a URL without any special formatting."
According to the text of the patent, it covers a technology serving the following circumstances: "a user wishing to search for 'San Francisco Hotels' may do by simply accessing the URL www.domain_name/San Francisco Hotels, where domain_name is a domain name associated with the web site system."
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