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Why does Yahoo truncate URL's?
I copy and paste a web site URL into an answer...and Yahoo whacks off characters at the end. Even so, if someone clicks the URL, it will work. What's the point?
2 Answers
- StarLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
The point is that Yahoo! only displays a certain number of characters in a URL because some URLs are so long it would take lines of text in order to show the whole thing. Besides, who would care about things like $=!ksue&$#@_LKTROI in a URL shows in the link anyway?
As long as the link works, just click and bookmark it, there's no need to see the full URL unless you are going to memorize it.
Good luck, HTH
- blapathLv 61 decade ago
Yahoo truncates the URL in display, but not the actual URL the link is connected to. In html you can give a different display string to the actual connection string.
The reason is shortcutting long and not understandable URL string. The actual address is not interesting; it should be just an indication "it is a link" the best would be to place just a readble address, ttile or description string for every URL (like on ordinary URL).
