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Rewrite Search URL to human friendly?

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    Rewrite Search URL to human friendly?

    Is there a way to rewrite the search URL to a human-friendly URL in case someone wants to provide the search URL to someone else (or post it anywhere?)

    E.g. instead of
    vBulletin SEO Forums - Search Results

    to make it appear as
    http://www.vbseo.com/search/rewrite_search_url/

    if someone searches for rewrite search url

    (and make it so that that the http://www.vbseo.com/search/rewrite_search_url/ shown in the browser when the results are displayed is valid forever.)

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    (I realize the results would be current instead of static if the search URL was basically the link to the search query each time, but I'd prefer this as that way if someone copies and pastes the URL to a search they've done, it will present the "current" results from the forum including newer threads & posts if it's posted to a webpage, blog, or another forum and accessed years down the road; granted the results won't be exactly what they saw, but I'd prefer current results to exactly what they saw but likely outdated down the road)

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    vbulletin only saves the search for 15-20 minuetes i think. after that it expires via a cron job cleanup.

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    I've disliked that aspect of the vbulletin search for a while now. I wonder if there is any way a product like vbseo can actually rewrite the url in a way that can then become the query. I guess this would take some doing, but it would be very neat if not only could the search results URL be human readable, but also it could actually be the query so if the search isn't saved, and if someone has provided the link to "look here: at the vbseo site for some solutions: http://www.vbseo.com/search/rewrite_search_url/" it would then run it as a query in the future to return a meaningful and page.

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    If I do a search on google for example and want to point it out to someone, I can simply say - hey google it vbulletin search url - Google Search
    and that URL works forever and can be posted or shared.

    Somehow vbSEO would have to take the search results url and change it from the # to something like

    vBulletin SEO Forums - Search Forums search url rewrite &forumchoice=-1&searchdate=-1 rewritten as vbseo.com/search/vbulletin_search_url_rewrite or maybe to be really smart vbseo.com/search/vbulletin_search_url_rewrite_81658 which could show the cached results if they existed or if not run the search as a query to return a legitimate results page. That would be a really useful addition

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