Documentation
Make A Short and Tiny URL:
Instructions for using TCP3:
Paste your URL into the text box above and press "go". Then paste your new URL into whatever text editor, word processor, web form, address box or email you desire. Yes...the URL is already on the clipboard so you don't need to copy it to the clipboard. After that, your imagination is the limit.
Make Long URLs Shorter
The following URL
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=monterey,+ca&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=12
becomes
Make Ugly URLs Prettier
Using the TCP3 vanity url feature, the following URL could become:
becomes
Make Dumb URLs Smarter
TPC3 supports smart-redirection. The TCP3 url http://tcp3.com/google is shorthand for a google search. Due to the way this URL is constructed, you can simply append parameters to the end of the URL to generate pretty and smart search links to google.
For example, http://tcp3.com/google?q=einstein gets translated into a google search for "einstein".
To use this feature, take your tcp3 URL and add a '/' or a '?' followed by whatever data you want to be added to the original URL.
TCP3 will automatically add the extra data as you would expect. There are a few special cases that were carefully chosen to make the smart URLs live up to the "SMART" label.
Try it and let us know what you think.
Examples
Google Search (http://tcp3.com/google)
Lyrics Search (http://tcp3.com/lyrics-search)
Previewing TCP3 Urls
Any TCP3 URL can be previewed by adding the "preview" prefix to the TCP3 short and tiny url. The URL:
becomes
Tracking TCP3 URL Statistics (this feature is under development)
Click stats are tracked for each short URL by day and in total.
