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Message: [QUOTE="Dan Pop, post: 1712983"] Bullshit. Plenty of perfectly honest people use TinyURL to abbreviate long links. There is no a priori reason not to trust them. Bullshit. This is not the primary purpose of TinyURL. Just because a tool can be misused doesn't automatically mean that *any* use is a misuse. Most of the time you cannot make any educated guess. If you were familiar with the site in question, you wouldn't be using a search engine in the first place. More bullshit, as others have already pointed out. What is the *obvious* way to tell whether a TinyURL link is a legitimate abbreviation of a cnn.com link or something else? Concrete example: [URL]http://tinyurl.com/ys356[/URL] I've lost the count of TinyURLs I've used without having any problems. All of them pointed exactly where they were advertised to point. If you're paranoid, thoday's Internet is not the right place for you... Dan [/QUOTE]