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indeed.. http://snipurl.com/features.php

yep, snipurl has some pretty spiffy features..in tinyurl or qwer or shorl or makeashorterlink, i can even shorten junk URLs like "c:\test.htm" which is not a valid URL, i can shorten the same URL many many times.

none of them give me a decent mechanism to measure how many people clicked on my shortened link.

tinyurl does not even have a privacy policy on their website so i am not sure what they do with my data.

tinyurl or any other service do not give me an alias, e.g.,
http://snipurl.com/solinas
with others, i only get a pretty long random number!

with tinyurl, i can always guess short urls that are close to mine, i.e., if i see soemthing like tiny url.com/1, i can always try out tiny url.com/2 or 3 or 4...they are not secure. with http://snipurl.com i can protect my short URLs.

if nothing, snipurl definitely looks much better too!

I think the idea of making URLs shorter is good, especially while posting to listservs or usenet stuff. Just that tinyurl.com and makeashorterlink.com are pretty lousy implementations of the idea! "makeashorterlink" kinda defeats the whole purpose, doesn't it! :) I use http://snipurl.com all the time..that is a more useful execution of the same idea.

They may intend "Tiny URL", but I read "tinyurl" as "tin-yurl."

For short URLs, you really should check out http://qwer.org/

Not only does it produce nice, short URLs, but the domain is really quick and easy to type on a standard US-layout keyboard.

heh:

The following URL:

http://www.well.com
was shortened from a length of 19 characters to a length of 22 characters with the resulting URL:

http://tinyurl.com/89c

Shortened!

I've wondered about these types of URL proxy sites, and how they could be used as a shield for "deep linking" to anal retentive sites. Fer instance, if I use TinyURL to make a TinyURL to some page at KPMG, I can use that link and truthfully state my site has no links to KPMG. The TinyURL site can also say that no where on their site is a link either. That should surely confuse the clueless lawyers at KPMG and other idiotic sites.

It becomes a fun voyeuristic toy if you start guessing TinyURLs.

So I read the TOS. How long before this site is gone (like many others) because someone abuses it?

I'm betting a week.

Thanks, Mark!

Interesting...

Tinyurl happily makes tiny URLs for tinyurl.com URLs, even if the resulting tiny URL is not shorter than the original. Brief testing could not get the system to recursively resolve the tiny URLs or cause the system to give itself a wedgie.