Thursday, August 23, 2007 [Tweets]

URL Shortening: Hashes in Practice

Jeff Atwood:

My guess is the aggressive URL shortening services are doing a simple iteration across every permutation of the available characters they have as the URLs come in. Each new URL gets a unique three character combination until no more are left.

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