Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services? 354
Chris Shiflett writes "There's a new proposal ('URL shortening that doesn't hurt the Internet') floating around for using rev="canonical" to help put a stop to the URL-shortening madness. In order to avoid the great linkrot apocalypse, we can opt to specify short URLs for our own pages, so that compliant services (adoption is still low, because the idea is pretty fresh) will use our short URLs instead of TinyURL.com (or some other third-party alternative) replacements."
Re:"Great link apocolypse" WAT? (Score:3, Funny)
but will they be cute? (Score:5, Funny)
What value are these new URLs if they aren't cute?!? [socuteurl.com]
Seth
a better idea (Score:5, Funny)
how about we just kill all twitter users instead?
Re:but will they be cute? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:but will they be cute? (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.socuteurl.com/nibblekins
would be yet a clever thing!
Re:a better idea (Score:5, Funny)
Re:sorry but I dont get... (Score:5, Funny)
somesite.org/wiki/index/cool_tips/code/perl/hello_world.php
That's just wrong.
Re:but will they be cute? (Score:3, Funny)
This is why rel="cute" should be introduced. Then we will be able to avoid the so-called "cute linkrot" which, despite its name, will be ugly.
Re:"Great link apocolypse" WAT? (Score:5, Funny)
From tinyurl:
Copyright © 2002-2009 Gilby Productions. All rights reserved.
(2009 - 2002) < 11+
Re:Solving the wrong problem (Score:5, Funny)
But then you're going to have the problem solved instead of opening up a new can of worms with lots of jobs and neverending problems to solve. Intelligence is bad for the economy.
I prefer hugeurl (Score:5, Funny)
"Because bigger is better, right?" http://www.hugeurl.com/ [hugeurl.com]
Re:Arbitrary (Score:5, Funny)
Your mom is an aggregation and redistribution tool. And she certainly didn't limit herself to 140 characters.
Re:I have an easier solution: (Score:2, Funny)
Because of this:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-26%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26rls%3DGGLG%252CGGLG%253A2005-26%252CGGLG%253Aen%26q%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252Fsearch%253Fhl%253Den%2526lr%253D%2526c2coff%253D1%2526rls%253DGGLG%25252CGGLG%25253A2005-26%25252CGGLG%25253Aen%2526q%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.google.com%25252Fsearch%25253Fsourceid%25253Dnavclient%252526ie%25253DUTF-8%252526rls%25253DGGLG%25252CGGLG%25253A2005-26%25252CGGLG%25253Aen%252526q%25253Dhttp%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fwww%2525252Egoogle%2525252Ecom%2525252Fsearch%2525253Fsourceid%2525253Dnavclient%25252526ie%2525253DUTF%2525252D8%25252526rls%2525253DGGLG%2525252CGGLG%2525253A2005%2525252D26%2525252CGGLG%2525253Aen%25252526q%2525253Dhttp%252525253A%252525252F%252525252Fuk2%252525252Emultimap%252525252Ecom%252525252Fmap%252525252Fbrowse%252525252Ecgi%252525253Fclient%252525253Dpublic%2525252526GridE%252525253D%252525252D0%252525252E12640%2525252526GridN%252525253D51%252525252E50860%2525252526lon%252525253D%252525252D0%252525252E12640%2525252526lat%252525253D51%252525252E50860%2525252526search%252525255Fresult%252525253DLondon%25252525252CGreater%252525252520London%2525252526db%252525253Dfreegaz%2525252526cidr%252525255Fclient%252525253Dnone%2525252526lang%252525253D%2525252526place%252525253DLondon%252525252CGreater%252525252BLondon%2525252526pc%252525253D%2525252526advanced%252525253D%2525252526client%252525253Dpublic%2525252526addr2%252525253D%2525252526quicksearch%252525253DLondon%2525252526addr3%252525253D%2525252526scale%252525253D100000%2525252526addr1%252525253D%2526btnG%253DSearch%26btnG%3DSearch&btnG=Search [google.com]
Re:WTF? (Score:1, Funny)