On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:52:47 -0500, Randy Kramer wrote: > This is OT. I tried posting it on > d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org but didn't get much > response, so I thought I'd try here (especially because I did get some > good help on the other question I asked recently, about invisible cache > files on /tmp from Flash).
Maybe because the Yahoo issue is way off-topic even for a chit-chat mailing list ;-) > A number of questions: > > Has anyone else noticed the very long URLs that are used (sometimes) on > news.yahoo.com? (...) Yes, and Google is also doing something similar. Browsing the web is getting really annoying. > My interests include the following: > > * finding a good address to write to yahoo and complain http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/news/forms_index.html > * finding a way to consistently click on a link and get the page to > come up with the shorter link > * and thus, being able to C&P the link to my blog without subsequent > editing > * maybe finding a way to modify klipper to automatically truncate > such links before the first ; That's up to Yahoo! not us (users). What you can do is finding the short like by searching for the news header in Google. For instance, this is for the given sample: - Header: Things to Watch For at CPAC - Google search: http://www.google.es/search?q=Things+to+Watch+For+at+CPAC&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a - Which points to: http://news.yahoo.com/things-watch-cpac-094500007.html > Obviously, I could use a service like tinyurl to create a new smaller > url, but that is not an acceptable solution to me for a few reasons. You can ask Yahoo! if they provide a "permalink" or something like that, at least for their news pages. They can even have a policy for external linking or specific tools for webmasters/bloggers to automate the job. > (Among them, the url loses any meaning embedded in the original url, and > now I have to worry about tinyurl going defunct, at which point the > smaller urls would not work and have no clue to find the original URL. (...) I neither like URL shortening services. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jh82mv$ai9$2...@dough.gmane.org
