From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article ,   
    bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote:   
      
   > ...OK, so I understand that Apache can be made to "rewrite"   
   > "site.com/person1" to "site.com/person.php?arg=1" etc etc. - but my question   
   > is:   
   > How does Google get the URL "site.com/person1" in the first place? Is it a   
   > dictionary? Or does there have to be a link to it somewhere? That doesn't   
   > sound plausible or possible.....   
      
   Why not? That's where search engines get most of their URLs in the first   
   place, by finding links on other pages.   
      
   For instance, site.com might have a directory page with links to all the   
   users' pages. Or the users might put links to their pages in Facebook,   
   tweets, etc.   
      
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   Barry Margolin   
   Arlington, MA   
      
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