Making URLs Longer
Everytime I follow a tinyurl.com or bit.ly link I always wonder if there’s a nasty website waiting. By which I mean one that might try and infect my computer by downloading malware. Longurl.org does the opposite, it extracts information from the linked page so you can get a feel for what the link is pointing to.
I know tinyurl.com has preview links that no one seems to use! there’s not just tinyurl.com or bit.ly nut nearly 200 url shortening services out there. There’s a full list on the longurl.org site of the ones that it handles. It’s nicely done and is a useful free service.
Posted: August 29th, 2009 under anonymous, knowledge, web.
Tags: lengthening, url
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