> no effective "canonical" one without running into the "title changed" problem As pointed out below one could make the newest title the canonical one and redi

> no effective "canonical" one without running into the "title changed" problem As pointed out below one could make the newest title the canonical one and redirect everything else to it, or am I missing something? > YouTube has done very well for itself without succumbing to the "embed the title" I think it is a problem with YouTube too. It happened to me a couple of times that a video was removed, I only had a dead video ID in my watch-later playlist and there was no way to find out which video it was. By the way, even YouTube has an URL shortener called "youtu.be". > where you can reasonably expect the user to type the URL in I think in most browsers this is by now a combined URL and search field and, quite frankly, I don’t know anyone who accesses long URLs without auto-complete or Google anymore.