The lengthy URLs on the Internet cannot be changed. Although it conveys a clear message, it cannot meet the viewer's sharing needs on some networks, and people have limited memories of the character length.
As a result, URL abbreviations came into being.
URL forwarding Service to shorten it to a brief and easy-to-remember website. At the same time, with the rise of micro-blogs in recent years, due to the word limit characteristics of micro-blogs, this service has gradually become an indispensable helper for online sharing.
Long URL:
Http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1? Type = 3 & campid = 5336224516 & toolid = 10001 & customid = tiny-HP & ext = unicycle & satitle = unicycle
Changed:
Http://tinyurl.com/unicycles
1. tinyurl
Tinyurl started earlier in this market, and its popularity is also relatively advanced. Although it sometimes goes down, the downtime is not so long. Therefore, in the long term of endurance and habits, it has been adapted to its use and has become one of the resident tools of various platforms. The home page says: more than 200 million of them. Over 1.8 billion hits/month. After translation, there are more than 2 million records and the monthly click rate exceeds 0.2 billion. It can be seen that it is incredibly popular, and it has its own support for browser bookmarking tools. The page is also very simple. The input window is displayed on the homepage. You can enter the original URL to be abbreviated and click the button to randomly generate a short URL, you can also choose to enter a replacement character in the box below, and then click to generate this short address.2. Bit. ly
Bit. ly is an abbreviated website service provider and recently announced that it had received about $2 million in investment in the first round of financing. What's special about it is that they take advantage of all the data they see and provide the data to third-party developers. They track clicks and tell you the most popular links at any time.
Bit. ly also uses the Calais product of Reuters to extract semantic phrases from the abbreviated webpage, and then provides instant information through APIS. In addition, it is worth mentioning that it is connected with Twitter. on the homepage of the website, you can directly enter the URL and information to be published on Twitter, and after shortening the URL above, the shortened URL is automatically entered in the tweet publishing area below. Of course, you need to click sign in on the page first.3. Miscellaneous
Nn. NF:
(A preview link is provided. After you click it, you will see the website address, which roughly determines whether the website is secure. This is a security protection consideration .)
Minmu:
(It provides an interesting URL aggregation service that aggregates multiple URLs (including snapshots) on one page to update and delete the short address, A security reminder mechanism is attached .)
Burnurl:
(Drag the button on the home page to the toolbar of the browser. With this sharebar, you can directly share the button to websites such as Twitter and Digg while browsing the webpage, with statistical and evaluation functions .)
Gurl. Es:
(You can shorten your email, simple text, and simple image to a short address, and then you can directly browse the website, send an email, read the text, and view the image through the short address .)
Ofcn.cn:
(Chinese websites also provide short-site notes, tools, plug-ins, explicit IP signature creation, and image unlink functions .)