A Decent Looking URL Generator
For years I’ve used Tinyurl.com to take a long ugly url and make it sendable through email. Long emails tend to get cut in two which needs a bit of cutting and pasting to restore.
Now though someone has come up with an alternative, though more I suspect because it’s search engine friendly. Just paste the link, add a title which is then transmogrified into a friendly URL. Quite neat.
For example I was at The Science Museum in London yesterday. The Google maps link to this location is http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=
science+museum&sll=54.162434,-3.647461&sspn=17.369149,28.78418&ie=UTF8&
ll=51.497262,-0.174247&spn=0.002248,0.003514&t=h&z=18&om=1
While the decenturl.com version is http://decenturl.com/maps.google/science-museum-on-google-maps
Of course if you want a bit of fun, why not try hugeurl.com!!!
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Posted: October 29th, 2007 under technology, tools, web.
Tags: decenturl, hugeurl, tinyurl, url
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