20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
9:52 a.m.
This one time, at band camp, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
Personally I don't see the need to shorten OpenGuides URLs; they are a fairly managable lenth at the moment and, moreover, convey useful information (ie they are a fairly close representation of the page name).
What's more, Google likes them. The Guardian and other Vignette sites with their crappy 4534,3452342,34254.html type links just don't get treated as well.
e.g.: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Barton+Swing+Aqueduct&btnG=Go...
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