What are your thoughts on the value of tinyurl

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Tinyurl.com is a site that lets users turn long url's into quick short one's

Personally I like the tinyurl.com site because I frequently have to send long url's to people in an email which often does not work well depending upon the end-user's email client.

With tinyurl.com, I can enter the tinyurl of a long name, and it redirect the user to the approperiate page. This includes long form listings.

"The bad" = it hids the real url so the user doesn't really know where he/she is clicking and what information is being sent to the server from the client.

Thoughts?

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I think tinyurl.com is awesome

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I use it all the time, it works great for me

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Never used it before, but it looks cool and will use it more

Wow, never really heard of this site before, I have this problem myself sometimes, and will try using it in the future.

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It has its uses

I prefer people post full URLs, but sometimes you have to get around a restrictive filter

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Don't use it. I like my keywords.

Keywords are descriptive and despite what SEO-types say, I think they do help with SERPs.

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jody 1 year ago

http://snipurl.com/site/index

works well too

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This topic was started by JPRuss JPRuss has 299 Grupie Points on October 22nd, 2006. 26 grupies have voted on one or more of the 6 answers.

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