[gnaritas]

I'd say your friend has bad taste and shouldn't be allowed to design the URL structure of your site. Your style is better, but neither is more or less RESTful because REST doesn't say anything about pretty URL. URL's don't have to be hackable to be RESTful, but it's nice. URL's don't have to be pretty to be RESTful, but it's nice. You have better taste than your friend. Your search however, is more RESTful than his as all of your searches use the same URL. You understand what a resource is, he doesn't.