TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses. TinyURL was the first notable URL shortening service and is one of the oldest still currently operating. The TinyURL homepage includes a form which is used to submit a long URL for shortening. For each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL. According to the website, the shortened URLs will never expire. More information...
According to PR-model, tinyurl.com is ranked 221,489th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 2,464th in Finnish Wikipedia.
The website is placed before vitanigra.com and after keiten.net in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
