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Create Longer URLs with HugeUrl.com

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
4 years ago965 views

Longer than TinyUrl ;)

hugeurl.com

[ Thanks Markus! renschler.net]

Jared Cherup [PersonRank 10]

4 years ago #

Wow... this is so awesome. I'm going to start linking everything through this site.

Here's Google hugeurl.com/?NzVhYjAwOTUxYjg2Y ...

George R [PersonRank 10]

4 years ago #

This 1540 byte hugeurl redirects to google.com.

hugeurl.com/?NzVhYjAwOTUxYjg2Y ...

Truncating it to 1400 bytes seems to also redirect to google.com.

hugeurl.com/?NzVhYjAwOTUxYjg2Y ...

Appending (i.e. embedding in the url) my own message to that or the original also seems to redirect to google.com.

... www.hugeurl.com/ ... --Your-Message-Here-

hugeurl.com/?NzVhYjAwOTUxYjg2Y ...

George R [PersonRank 10]

4 years ago #

They seem to be using a data base to translate these.
It might put less load on their server if they encoded the target url in the huge url.

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