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A URL I want to share in my email is so long it breaks & becomes unclickable. How can I shorten it?
How can I shorten long URLs?
What is SnipURL?

Jan 10th, 2008 10:36
dman, Shashank Tripathi, Michael Chermside, http://sturly.com


Try one of these "URL shortening" services --
1. http://snipurl.com
(Allows you to add nicknames to your 'snipped' URLs, make URLs private,
check statistics for how many clicks your snipped URL garnered, edit
your underlying URLs, etc. There is also a text-only version of the
website: http://snipurl.com/simple)
2. http://tinyurl.com  
3. http://sturly.com
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Another interesting article to read on this subject: 
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0819-smallurl.html