Ryan Boudreaux discusses the importance of providing user-friendly URLs and offers tips about ways to handle web re-addressing for both static and dynamic URLs. How many times have you tried to ...

A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator, a tool used to find webpages. A URL is composed of a protocol, a domain name, a path to the webpage, and a webpage name. Here's a brief introduction to URLs and ...

We all know the humble URL; it tells the internet where we want to go. But, as digital artist Alexander Reben discovered, it can do so much more. It turns out that entire webpages can live within its ...

Google's done a lot with Chrome -- and by extension, our relationship with the internet -- in its relatively short life. Autofill, ad management, web encryption... These are all things that were at ...

Users suspicious of shortened URLs can add /- to the end of a TweaK URL to reveal the true address, for example 5wgpt.tk/-. Dot TK officials explained that TweaK uses true 301 redirection so search ...

AVG has added a feature to its LinkScanner Web security product that scans shortened URLs, which can often blindly lead users into a malicious software attack. LinkScanner, which AVG launched as a ...

Google appears to be backing away from its somewhat controversial experimental feature for the Chrome browser that hid full web addresses from users. Dubbed the Origin Chip, the new feature condenses ...

Shortened URLs, a service on many sites that turns lengthy Web addresses into shorter URLs, is rapidly becoming a popular way for spammers to reach unsuspecting readers. New analysis from Symantec’s ...