Given a search term like this:
/amazon_store?Keywords=foo&SearchIndex=Books

I'd like to be able to link to a URL like this:

/amazon_store/SearchIndex/Books/Keywords/foo

Which would provide the same results. This would allow creating top-level links to a variety of categories without the appearance of parametrized searches.

(I'm trying to create a top-level menu structure that doesn't use parameterized URLs for SEO purposes.)

Is there a way to do this with panels/pages/etc? .htaccess mod_rewrite? Or some other way? Or am I barking up the wrong tree...?

I see one of the example sites, http://www.thelawnmowersite.com/, doing something like this but it looks like they created a bunch of nodes and taxonomy terms and a view to display them. Or is there an easier way?

For example: there's a link titled "Riding Mowers" that takes you to this URL:
http://www.thelawnmowersite.com/Search-Lawn-Mowers/results/taxonomy%3A13

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mcurry commented
Title: Support 'clean' urls rather than query parameters » Support 'clean' urls as well as query parameters

Updating issue title.

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rfay
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There's no reason it shouldn't be done this way. It does affect a fair bit of code. I'm in favor. The problem is that you lose the parameter=value semantics, which are pretty nice.

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mcurry commented

I suggest we allow both, leaving it up to the webmaster as to which he/she wants to use.

Whenever the site visitor uses the search form(s), the module could fall back to using the query parameters (?Keywords=foo&SearchIndex=Books) form. (This could be a configurable behavior.)

Looks like I'll be hacking up your pretty little module :D

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