I’ve been using Yahoo! Local with some regularity since I still don’t know the area I live in all that well1. Today I had lunch with Steve and I eIM’ed him the URL of the place from Yahoo! Local. Let me tell you, that is one ugly looking URL:
http://local.yahoo.com/details;_ylt=
AtA3DivnL7En8XMvvq0P2PSHNcIF;_ylu=
X3oDMTBpZzIyMjd0BF9zAzk2NjEzNzY5
BHNlYwNzcg–?id=19555234&state=
CO&city=Arvada&stx=chilis&csz=Arvada
%2C+CO+80007&fr=&ed=
GjDDZK131DzBpU5TmkT8gVQRd8xYb.
_InUo3oAw2ZjMiHRGuwsU-&lcscb=5dUHDN3EejL
260 characters of ugliness.
Even the del.icio.us and Flickr’s GUID URLs are much better - merely because they are shorter. I wonder how many people have e-mailed out a Yahoo! Local URL to someone, only to have their e-mail program insert line breaks and break the URL2
Yahoo! is making a bunch of good decisions these days, I hope that implementing a better URL scheme for Local is one they get to soon.
- This is a side effect of working at home and not having to drive around every day. [back]
- Which, frankly is a bug in the e-mail program - but it something that should be avoided if possible. [back]
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stephen ogrady adds this Comment:
amen. 8 lines? you gotta be kidding me.
October 11th, 2005 at 10:32 pm
Cail adds this Comment:
if you want to do some extra work, the _ylt & _ylu params can be set to 1 and the URLs will work fine… An easier solution might be to use TrueLocal, they have really clean URLs:
http://www.truelocal[...]mp;cs=Arvada
February 26th, 2006 at 12:58 am