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I remember PC World started doing this back in like 2003. Makes sense, I think. But how are you solving the problem any better than a reader can armed with (1)
by alanh 13y ago
I remember PC World started doing this back in like 2003. Makes sense, I think. But how are you solving the problem any better than a reader can armed with (1) the date on your cover, (2) the original URL, and (3) the Internet Archive Wayback Machine? Are you aggressively caching every page, even if you don’t make the cache public for a number of years?
- ScrumMistress 13y agoMany links usually 301 redirect for a while before dying. Maybe it helps in those cases to update the shortened URL to point to the new link.
- gwern 13y agoDo that automatically, and you'll wind up with a lot of broken URLs. Routinely, when fixing broken links on my own site, I punch something in the IA, click on the latest version - and get redirected to the root of some site or other. Not very useful. (The redirect also makes it hard to get back to the URL search results because the IA redirects you so fast that if you simply hit the 'back button', you won't go anywhere.)
- gcb0 13y agowe did that on folha de s.paulo newspaper in brazil in the late 90's but mostly to link to the online version of the site the newspaper owned. it was a way to give out more data for a news piece that could not fit in the paper. Usually external urls were printed in the paper anyway.