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February 8th, 2010 | 
Author: Once upon a time, URLs (Uniform Resource Locators, which most of us know as Web addresses or links) were short and simple. Often, they looked something like http://www.geeks.com. If you had a personal Web page, your URL might look something like http://www.facebook.com/ComputerGeeks
Times change, and URLs have expanded. A lot. Just do a search at the Web site of a large corporation or your favorite online retailer. What often comes back is a long and convoluted URL. And that becomes a problem if you’re into microblogging. Services like Twitter limit you to 140 characters. Some long URLs exceed that limit by quite a bit.
So, how can you tame those impossibly long URLs? With a Web-based service called a URL shortener.
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