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Who Needs URLs Anyway?

Posted September 12, 2012 7:32 AM

From ScienceBlogs:

One of the questions that has become more prescient lately is whether location is relevant anymore. It used to be that you needed a snappy, memorable URL for you website. But in the advent of all-seeing search engines, nobody needs to remember URLs any more. Just type in what you're looking for, or a half-remembered fragment of what you read last week, and uncle Google will find it. When you share these articles, you'll do it in Twitter or on Tumblr or Facebook or Reddit or one of a dozen other social aggregators which will either conceal the URL or truncate it into an unrecognisable glyph. All that time spent coming up with a clever piece of unique wordplay will be wasted, sorry.

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09/12/2012 1:49 PM

Apple's legal department isn't going to like this; no more suing mom & pop Polish grocers and German bakers for sound-alike URLs.

"Gentlemen, irrelevant URLs pose a serious threat to our revenue stream! I say we LITIGATE!"

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09/12/2012 2:10 PM

Apple's legal department likes a little challenge every once in a while. They'll just retroactively patent all Search Engines, and then sue google!

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09/13/2012 10:25 AM

The scary thing to me is the search engine providers have their own agenda, and they are able to control what you find. And they do.

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09/13/2012 12:47 PM

This sounds like a job for Open Source!

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