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Sam Ruby: Canonical Reverse Or Wisdom Defying Shorturl?

intertwingly.net
2009-04-14T15:38:15.000Z
webdev revcanonical urlshortening urls imported:pinboard

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mnot’s Web log: Counting the ways that rev="canonical" hurts the Web

www.mnot.net
2009-04-14T15:06:40.000Z
revcanonical urlshortening webdev web links imported:pinboard

Notes

"That’s because while I was watching the kids rolling down the grass slope on top of Parliament House, rev="canonical" started to gain some serious momentum, billing itself as a way to shorten URLs that “doesn’t hurt the Internet.” In my opinion, this is an interesting idea with an very unfortunate execution that’s bad for the Web, and I’m going to enumerate the reasons here. "

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