Ryan Boudreaux discusses the importance of providing user-friendly URLs and offers tips about ways to handle web re-addressing for both static and dynamic URLs. How many times have you tried to ...

The Web is full of short URLs such as bit.ly/cwd2hp. The products of URL-shortening services–bit.ly, Tiny URL, and others–these cryptic URLs appear on social networking sites such as Twitter–and ...

Google's done a lot with Chrome -- and by extension, our relationship with the internet -- in its relatively short life. Autofill, ad management, web encryption... These are all things that were at ...

Users suspicious of shortened URLs can add /- to the end of a TweaK URL to reveal the true address, for example 5wgpt.tk/-. Dot TK officials explained that TweaK uses true 301 redirection so search ...

AVG has added a feature to its LinkScanner Web security product that scans shortened URLs, which can often blindly lead users into a malicious software attack. LinkScanner, which AVG launched as a ...

Long URLs are not particularly suitable for distribution in printed matter. As an alternative, you can request to have a short URL set up: Order your short URL as early as possible, especially if it ...