[brown9-2]

Can you clarify something - what benefit does the #! syntax give your site specifically? The reason for using this seems to be misunderstood by the original article.

[miniatureape]

The #! syntax alerts google's crawler that the site supports their ajax crawling scheme [1].

The fragment (part after the hash), in general, is used to denote a specific state (or "page") in a single page ajax site.

[1] http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...