Linkyy is a shortener of URLs

You put in a long URL, such as

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=41.829537,-88.250771&spn=0.0456,0.109949&t=h&z=14

and Linkyy spits out a nice short URL, e.g.

http://linkyy.com/1

How effective is it?

So far, Linkyy has saved 1,525,421 characters from 41,574 URLs. That's an average of 36 characters per URL.

About the author

Linkyy was written by Rockwell Schrock.