Publisher/Affiliate > Shorten URL
Name
Update
Type
Publisher
Price
Metamark Shorten Service
2007/05
Web-Based Service
Develooper LLC
Free Short URL redirection service. Make a long URL short with this service.
Over at perl.org we needed a "short url" type service we could trust to work for years, years and yet more years to come. There are a bunch of similar services; but not operated by us, how could we trust they would keep running? While testing we also found too many odd bugs and design decisions in the other similar systems to really trust them.
It converts long and unemailable urls like:
http://www.fourmilab .ch/ cgi-bin/ uncgi/Earth? imgsize=1024 &opt=-l &lat=52.7917 &ns=North &lon=38.5833 &ew=West &alt=149151162 &img=learth.evif (phew; just getting that into MovableType was a pain!)
To a short and very emailable url like: http://xrl.us/earth.
Do Metamark links expire?
The Metamark urls expire after five years or two years after the last usage - whichever comes later. However, if a link is never used, it will expire after two years. This should mean that as long as a link is on a public page, some search engine will visit it and keep it alive.
- publisher-author
- Develooper LLC
- License
- Free
- Created
- 2003/01/7
- Updated
- 2007/05/15
- Platform
- All Platforms
- Money Back
- n/a
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