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Recently there has been a lot of hype about URL Shortening. I guess some URL Shortening services even offer tracking stats. But, doesn't adding one more level of look-up to the original URL affect page ranking in any way? Just curious to know.
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Now, this is not strictly about URL shortening, but my purpose is such anyway, so let's view it like that. Of course the steps to URL shortening are:
Take the full URL
Generate a unique short string to be the key for the URL
Store the URL and the key in a database (a key-value store would be a perfect…
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Yesterday i got to know about one more URL shortening service Saf.li. I think there are hundreds of websites offering such service. I always wonder how do such sites earn? After all they need money to host their data and code.
Also, i really don't understand why techcrunch said this:-
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Yesterday i got to know about one more URL shortening service Saf.li. I think there are hundreds of websites offering such service. I always wonder how do such sites make money? After all they need money to host their data and code.
Also, i really don't understand why techcrunch said this:-
http://techcrunch…
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The site I am working on wants to generate its own shortened URLs rather than rely on a third party like tinyurl or bit.ly.
Obviously I could keep a running count new URLs as they are added to the site and use that to generate the short URLs. But I am trying to avoid that if possible since it seems…
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