Context aware breadcrumbs with php sessions - Will search engines index each variation?

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Published on 2010-05-12T16:53:10Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 16:54 UTC
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Some pages on my website appear differently depending on where the user has been, using php sessions.

for example with breadcrumbs:

standard crumb setup:

All Books -> fiction -> Lord Of the Flies

if the visitor has just been on the 'William Golding Page', a session will have been created to say, this visitor is broswing by author, so i would check

if( $_SESSION['browsing by] == 'author' ):

and the breadcrumbs (for the exact same page as before) would now be:

Authors -> William Golding -> Lord Of the Flies

to summarise:

So 1 page exists for each book, but depending where the user has come from, the page will show different breadcrumbs.

the questions:

  1. Can search engines create my 'browsing by' SESSION?
  2. Would they index the same page multiple times (for each variation)?

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