If you’re concerned about privacy and security, you’ve already done a lot to avoid online tracking. You probably use an extension like Privacy Badger and have ...

If networks of links are the road map that search engines use to crawl the web, URLs are the street names that give that map meaning and consistency. As such, URLs affect search engine optimization in ...

Google's newest web browser already starts trimming away a bit of detail to make it easier for newbies to understand where they are on the web. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

If your website has a particularly long or complicated address but you need a shorter, "friendlier" URL to use in marketing materials, you may request a special URL that can be used to reach your site ...

Web URLs can get really, really long and that, in turn, leads to all sorts of problems. The first problem is one of simple usability. URLs that are 50, 100, or even 200 characters in length will wrap ...

Google is ending support for the goo.gl URL shortening service, the Internet giant announced Friday. Google’s Michael Hermanto said that starting April 13, anyone who had not used goo.gl before March ...

Need to shorten a link? IT has you covered... Let's face it, links can be long and clunky. It's nice to have short, clean URLs when sharing them in emails, on social media and elsewhere. William & ...

Google's John Mueller was asked if redirecting a URL to a new URL will also pass the Core Web Vitals metrics. The short answer is yes, if you redirect page A to new page B, page A's Core Web Vitals ...

Windows 11/10 has added a ton of new features to the Edge browser Chromium. And one of them is the Sharing option. It is well integrated with other applications. Although you can easily share URLs by ...

Google's Chrome browser turns 10 today, and in its short life it has introduced a lot of radical changes to the web. From popularizing auto-updates to aggressively promoting HTTPS web encryption, the ...