Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services?

Chris Shiflett writes "There's a new proposal ('URL shortening that doesn't hurt the Internet') floating around for using rev="canonical" to help put a stop to the URL-shortening madness. In order to avoid the great linkrot apocalypse, we can opt to specify short URLs for our own pages, so that compliant services (adoption is still low, because the idea is pretty fresh) will use our short URLs instead of TinyURL.com (or some other third-party alternative) replacements."

Comments

Re:"Great link apocolypse" WAT?

[whopub]

Please, more comments, or I'll be forced to read the actual article. I don't want to be kicked off slashdot for RtFA...

but will they be cute?

[SethJohnson]

What value are these new URLs if they aren't cute?!?

Seth

Re:but will they be cute?

[kongit]

http://www.socuteurl.com/squeakers ahhh so cute

Re:but will they be cute?

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.socuteurl.com/nibblekins
would be yet a clever thing!

Re:but will they be cute?

[digitalme2]

This is why rel="cute" should be introduced. Then we will be able to avoid the so-called "cute linkrot" which, despite its name, will be ugly.

a better idea

[Anonymous Coward]

how about we just kill all twitter users instead?

Re:a better idea

[YourExperiment]

Twitter? That's so first-quarter-of-2009. Everyone's using flutter now you know.

Re:sorry but I dont get...

[palegray.net]

somesite.org/wiki/index/cool_tips/code/perl/hello_world.php

That's just wrong.

Re:"Great link apocolypse" WAT?

[Sebilrazen]

Oh great, mysterious and anonymous time traveler, what year did you start using the internet so that we may know what year you are posting from and get lottery numbers, World Series and Superbowl winners from you?

From tinyurl:

Copyright © 2002-2009 Gilby Productions. All rights reserved.

(2009 - 2002) < 11+

Re:Solving the wrong problem

[rusl]

But then you're going to have the problem solved instead of opening up a new can of worms with lots of jobs and neverending problems to solve. Intelligence is bad for the economy.

I prefer hugeurl

[LittleBigScript]

"Because bigger is better, right?" http://www.hugeurl.com/

Re:Arbitrary

[Anonymous Coward]

Your mom is an aggregation and redistribution tool. And she certainly didn't limit herself to 140 characters.

Re:I have an easier solution:

[morgan_greywolf]

Because of this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-26%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26rls%3DGGLG%252CGGLG%253A2005-26%252CGGLG%253Aen%26q%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252Fsearch%253Fhl%253Den%2526lr%253D%2526c2coff%253D1%2526rls%253DGGLG%25252CGGLG%25253A2005-26%25252CGGLG%25253Aen%2526q%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.google.com%25252Fsearch%25253Fsourceid%25253Dnavclient%252526ie%25253DUTF-8%252526rls%25253DGGLG%25252CGGLG%25253A2005-26%25252CGGLG%25253Aen%252526q%25253Dhttp%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fwww%2525252Egoogle%2525252Ecom%2525252Fsearch%2525253Fsourceid%2525253Dnavclient%25252526ie%2525253DUTF%2525252D8%25252526rls%2525253DGGLG%2525252CGGLG%2525253A2005%2525252D26%2525252CGGLG%2525253Aen%25252526q%2525253Dhttp%252525253A%252525252F%252525252Fuk2%252525252Emultimap%252525252Ecom%252525252Fmap%252525252Fbrowse%252525252Ecgi%252525253Fclient%252525253Dpublic%2525252526GridE%252525253D%252525252D0%252525252E12640%2525252526GridN%252525253D51%252525252E50860%2525252526lon%252525253D%252525252D0%252525252E12640%2525252526lat%252525253D51%252525252E50860%2525252526search%252525255Fresult%252525253DLondon%25252525252CGreater%252525252520London%2525252526db%252525253Dfreegaz%2525252526cidr%252525255Fclient%252525253Dnone%2525252526lang%252525253D%2525252526place%252525253DLondon%252525252CGreater%252525252BLondon%2525252526pc%252525253D%2525252526advanced%252525253D%2525252526client%252525253Dpublic%2525252526addr2%252525253D%2525252526quicksearch%252525253DLondon%2525252526addr3%252525253D%2525252526scale%252525253D100000%2525252526addr1%252525253D%2526btnG%253DSearch%26btnG%3DSearch&btnG=Search

Re:WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you please tell me what justfuckinggoogleit.com is? I've never heard of it before and I'm afraid to click the link because it might send a virus to my computer, and I don't know any other way to find out this information other than asking you in this thread. Thanks.