Kamaraju, Thanks for your reply!
The point I may not have made clearly is that the problem occurs, just after I check my yahoo email account and sign out, and then get that page that sort of shows thumbnails of various stories with links--it is those links that I click on that give me the long URLs. Doing a further search at that point would be more effort than simply clicking on the long URL and then editing it. As an aside, I got an absolutely worthless response from yahoo support after finally finding a place to write to--the response basically said that they (he) understood that I wanted shorter URLs. No information on why they switched to the longer URLs, what they do for them (or me) (nothing good, I'm sure), how I could avoid them, or any note that they'd consider a change (except a very general statement that all customer feedback is saved and (could be?) considered in future versions of their software. But, again, thanks for your reply! Sorry for the (almost?) rant. ;-) Randy Kramer On Monday 20 February 2012 08:42:00 pm Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Randy Kramer wrote: > > I'm glad this list exists, as I can ask questions like this, which I > > haven't > > found discussed anywhere else so far. (I've tried googling.) > > I am also happy that this list exists. But it is very under utilized IMHO. > > > It seems that a (truncated) link like: > > > > http://news.yahoo.com/things-watch-cpac-094500007.html > > One suggestion I have is to search in google with the title and > site:news.yahoo.com . So for example, I did > > Things to Watch For at CPAC site:news.yahoo.com > > in google and got the "meaningful URL" http://news.yahoo.com/things-watch- > cpac-094500007.html as the first hit. After that, use the bookmarklet from > www.google.com/bookmarks to bookmark the website with your own tags. I find > this bookmarklet incredibly useful. > > Just my 2 cents. _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
