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Proposal for Canonical Short URL Auto-Discovery
- Semiapies 18y agoPerhaps we can stop endlessly posting everyone's post on someone else's post on URL shorteners and figure out something to do about it. ;) One objection, though: "Over the past few years SEO efforts lent to longer and more descriptive canonical URLs for content pages. During this time URL shorteners such as tinyurl.com and others came in to help undo that trend and make URLs fit into limited 140 character situations for sites like twitter.com or SMS messages." Back in the real world, there are plenty of links like, oh, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7984762.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7984762.stm that tell me very little at all about the link I'm going to follow. Mm, BBC news...involving Europe. There can't be much of that, can there?