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One of the beauties of Ajax-enabled web applications is their simplicity. This can also be seen as a downfall: Search engines cannot locate content that is dynamically added to the page because it does not appear in the source code. This should definitely be a concern in certain situations but, when building a web application, you are not always looking for high-ranking search results within the application itself. Rather, you are typically looking at ranking the home page or other such pages that are not on the inside of the application. Most web applications, such as the sample we are building in this book, do not require search engine rankings. Most of the time, these applications contain personal and secure information, and so it naturally ...

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