Eccentric Tickle

Google search URLs are pretty long and they sometmes break when being sent in IMs. Here’s a solution to shorten the Google search URLs. It’s easy to do. Just use keywords followed by http://gog.is/i.e. http://gog.is/( your keywords here). For example your are searching for ‘Hotel reviews’ use the URLs in the format http://gog.is/hotel+reviews or http://gog.is/hotel,reviews or http://gog.is/hotel/reviews/

Prefixes with gog.is, make your life easier

• shop: or s: : Will send you to Google product search. Try http://gog.is/shop:ipod.
• book: or b: : Will send you to Google book search. Try http://gog.is/book:poetry.
• news: or n: : Will send you to Google news search. Try http://gog.is/news:google.
• stock: or q: : Will send you to the first hit on Google finance. Try http://gog.is/stock:apple.
• wiki:, or w:: gog.is will redirect to the first hit on Wikipedia. Try http://gog.is/wiki:leo+laporte
• movie: or imdb: or just m:: will do the same for Imdb.com.Try http://gog.is/movie:slumdog.

The advantage of this URL shortening service over others such as TinyURL is that seach keywords are visible in the URL and hence it can be generated on the fly.

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