> This clears things up somewhat.

> I can understand that out of the millions of sites out there that use
> dynamic URL's there are a large proportion that get URL rewriting
> wrong (or rewrite 'unhelpfully' from Google's point of view) - so that
> is where the focus is for this recommendation.

> I think the original post should have been written to reflect that
> difference, that, if done correctly, rewriting is OK, but for the
> large part Google recommends leaving URLs alone. The post came across
> largely as a denouncement of rewriting.