Bingley:

Yep. But put another way:

If every person in the world (all 5 billion or thereabouts) was to request an equal number of snips, and snipurl limited its snips to ten symbols in length, each person would have made over 730,000 requests. At a hundred a day, it would take you 20 years to go through your 730,000 requests.

And don't forget that snipurl is not the only engine that does this. Makeashorterlink.com or something like that is another one that I've used, so that right there gives me 200 a day for 20 years.

Interesting, though, as more and more snipurls are used up they are going to have to go from four symbols to five, and eventually to six or seven, I would imagine. And that means if you snipurl an older snipurl you get a longer snipurl, not a shorter one.

Actually I just tried to snipurl a snipurl and got:

That URL cannot be snipped (it may be blocked due to spam records) or you tried to snip our URL which is not necessary.

And now I am wondering who is paying for snipurl. I didn't see any advertising, either when I created a snipurl or when I used it. I looked on the website and couldn't find anything that smacks of asking for money (with an exception not very pertinent to us normal users.) I think they just do it because they want to. Interesting.


TEd