The name DecentURL may sound just like any other URL shortening service but it’s actually the most useful of them all – it makes your web URLs short and meaningful.
That’s because DecentUrl automatically fetches the title of the web page and appends it to the short URL. And if you don’t like the default title of the web page, type a custom title yourself.
Consider the following cases:
1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jyNkr34C9s – This YouTube Video URL offers no clue about the actual video and one will have to visit the YouTube website to know what the video is all about.
2 .www.decenturl.com/youtube/wallstrip-chat-dan-lyons – This is another representation of the same YouTube video but here one can easily make out that this video has something to do with WallStrip and Dan Lyons, the man behind “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.”
Perfect for sharing long URLs of blogs and web videos in email messages.
http://www.decenturl.com [via Reddit]
Related: Create Very Comlex and Long URLs
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/convert-long-website-urls-into-short-addresses/1681/
Reader Comments
Useful Article Amit.
This is very useful when we are sending the big (you tube, google video) urls to others.
simply by using this decenturls we can create an alias and send those.
But I observed one thing in one of your earlier posts that Google even consider the url names. In that case we get problem if our sites or blogs are using decenturls instead of actuals.
Thanks for your tip.
Written by Dutt on 10.29.07
is there a firefox extension for this!
(like the tinyurl one)
Written by tech tools on 10.30.07