[D-community-offtopic] (Fairly) new very long URLs on news.yahoo?

[Randy Kramer]

Kamaraju,

Thanks for your reply!

The point I may not have made clearly is that the problem occurs, just after I 
check my yahoo email account and sign out, and then get that page that sort 
of shows thumbnails of various stories with links--it is those links that I 
click on that give me the long URLs.

Doing a further search at that point would be more effort than simply clicking 
on the long URL and then editing it.

As an aside, I got an absolutely worthless response from yahoo support after 
finally finding a place to write to--the response basically said that they 
(he) understood that I wanted shorter URLs.

No information on why they switched to the longer URLs, what they do for them 
(or me) (nothing good, I'm sure), how I could avoid them, or any note that 
they'd consider a change (except a very general statement that all customer 
feedback is saved and (could be?) considered in future versions of their 
software.

But, again, thanks for your reply!  Sorry for the (almost?) rant. ;-)

Randy Kramer

On Monday 20 February 2012 08:42:00 pm Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Randy Kramer wrote:
> > I'm glad this list exists, as I can ask questions like this, which I
> > haven't
> > found discussed anywhere else so far.  (I've tried googling.)
>
> I am also happy that this list exists. But it is very under utilized IMHO.
>
> > It seems that a (truncated) link like:
> >
> > http://news.yahoo.com/things-watch-cpac-094500007.html
>
> One suggestion I have is to search in google with the title and
> site:news.yahoo.com . So for example, I did
>
> Things to Watch For at CPAC site:news.yahoo.com
>
> in google and got the "meaningful URL" http://news.yahoo.com/things-watch-
> cpac-094500007.html as the first hit. After that, use the bookmarklet from
> www.google.com/bookmarks to bookmark the website with your own tags. I find
> this bookmarklet incredibly useful.
>
> Just my 2 cents.