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[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How in the world would search engines use such a request?

The way they retrieve your query, so not the result, but your query from you.

A better explanation than wiki: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_httpmethods.asp

Some other notes on GET requests:

GET requests can be cached

GET requests remain in the browser history

GET requests can be bookmarked

GET requests should never be used when dealing with sensitive data

GET requests have length restrictions

GET requests are only used to request data (not modify)

Some other notes on POST requests:

POST requests are never cached

POST requests do not remain in the browser history

POST requests cannot be bookmarked

POST requests have no restrictions on data length

TL;DR: Get is sending data via URL, Post in a 'data-packet'

I'm not sure if that's your question though, on what level do you want to have it explained?