However, that depends on the intelligence of the search engine and of the searcher. A search on the unique id will return just the one page. If the method becomes widely used, browsers can add an option that finds and retrieves the page with a single click. I'm Feeling Lucky button. This solution makes no attempt at security.
Unique ids are also an open target for spammers.
There are technologically sophisticated solutions that provide security, such as the Digital Object Identifier . However, they require additional infrastructure. The goal is to locate scholarly web pages. Such pages receive little traffic and are of no interest to spoofers or spammers. Spamming might still be a problem if there were an easy way for a crawler to harvest large numbers of unique ids.