Does google treat all urls equal?

[adriandg]

Sorry for the lame title, i couldn't think of a better one.

I want to know if google treats this:

http://www.domain.com/products/some-product-name

the same as it would treat:

http://www.domain.com/?products=some-product-name

if not, could you tell me the differences?

[Ursacescu]

Hello,

In fact there are several types of URL

Standard URLs:
    domain.php?p=12

Basic Friendly URLs:
    domain.php?product-12

Advanced Friendly URLs:
    domain.php/product-12

Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs:
    domain/product-12

The difference is in how they are written or rewritten in .htaccess file, if RewriteEngine on and rewrite rules are defined for your server.
Enabling friendly URLs can increase your site's ranking in search engines and can be useful and friendly for users to understand the URL's that they follow.

Radu