The portion of a
dynamic URL that contains the search parameters when a
dynamic Web site is searched. Query strings do not exist until a user plugs the variables into a
database search, at which point the
search engine will create the dynamic URL with the query string based on the results. Query strings typically contain
? and
% characters. The following URL is an example of a dynamic URL with a query string as the result of a search in the Webopedia database for the term "query string." The portion of the URL in
bold is the query string:
http://search.internet.com/www.webopedia.com?IC_QueryText="query%20string"&IC_QueryDatabase=www.webopedia.com.
