A Google Groups thread asks if Google can crawl and index UTF-8 encoded URLs. The quick answer is yes, Google can crawl and index these URLs. Google's JohnMu provided a link to the Google search ...
Percentage-based URL encoding plus Google domain trickery is helping malicious emails to evade filters. A phishing campaign that takes advantage of Google’s ability to decode non-ASCII URL data on the ...
Google has updated its URL structure best practices help documentation - it was pretty much a rewrite but the overall guidance is not new. Google said they added "clearer flow and is easier to ...