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Semiapies on April 3, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: The problems with url shorteners

The descriptive ones are nice. http://tinyurl.com/Do-Tiny-URLs-Suck gives a little more information than http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545565

zck on April 3, 2009 [–]

Well, it's different information. It is nice to know what it's about, but I'd rather read a random news.ycombinator link than a random article titled "Do Tiny URLs Suck".

Semiapies on April 6, 2009 | [–]

I wouldn't. I like HN, but any random link could be one of a thousand topics I don't care about.

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