Computers Notebooks » 898 http://www.computers-notebooks.net Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Shorter is Sweeter: A Look at URL Shorteners http://www.computers-notebooks.net/shorter-is-sweeter-a-look-at-url-shorteners.html http://www.computers-notebooks.net/shorter-is-sweeter-a-look-at-url-shorteners.html#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.computers-notebooks.net/shorter-is-sweeter-a-look-at-url-shorteners.html 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.


Source: Tech Tips Blog – Computer Tips – Computer Blog

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