Jun 17 2009
Find out where a short URL takes you before visiting them…
These days it has became very popular to shorten the long URl’s of the web address for several sites where many of us upload our videos, pictures or any other stuffs. This is because when we upload such stuffs to any sharing sites due to overwhelming number of users it has becomes a necessity to have long url’s. But now, shortening of web address is sometimes used by the spammers to promote any link or products and as we are not able to find where these links will divert us, very likely that we click on them. This habit sometimes cause us inconvenience.
But now this will not cause any problem to you as there is sits that can tell you where this short link, whether it is from twitter, tinyurl or any other URl shortening site, will divert you. For this purpose you only have to visit the link http://longurl.org/ and insert the suspicious short url address and it will show the full address of web page with a small preview. If you are a cautious web surfer then this site is really helpful to you as it can be used to stop malware, spyware or spams send to you.
This almost support every site used for shortening long URL’s like tinyurl.com, is.gd, ping.fm, ur1.ca, bit.ly, snipurl.com, tweetburner.com, metamark.net, url.ie, x.se, 6url.com, yep.it, piurl.com, and many more! thus making it a great tool……
If you want information on how to shorten lengthy address click the link below
Hard to remember long URL address, make it tiny….
