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Re:http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener by symptic on Thursday December 03, 2009 @12:03PM (#974643)
This tells me Google should consider providing shortened URLs. maps.google.com/a7sga would be great.
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Re:http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener by jurjenh on Thursday December 03, 2009 @05:05PM (#975339)
That could possibly be implemented as a hash of the included header/response terms.

A simple example could be http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hacker+news+site:yc... -> http://www.google.com/search?#b9fh23

One downside would be that you can't see the query parameters and values in plaintext, but a browser extender / inspector could probably do this.

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