We\'ve been working on a web application and we\'ve just about got it finished up, but there\'s one thing that bothering us (although by no means is it going to stop product
Your question seems to indicate that the target page is not and will not be powered by some server-side script. If that's the case, I'd suggest changing the querystring to a hash, which has the advantage of being directly editable without triggering a page-load:
http://yourdomain.com/page.html#search=value
Though, it would be better to get some server-side scripting involved here.