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Completely OT: I find it interesting that this post and several other HN posts this week are hosted on Google Plus. I definitely would not have predicted that G+ would encroach on the LiveJournal/Tumblr space.

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On a similar tangent to your OT post: we're getting to the point where seeing (plus.google.com) would be useful, since it conveys quite a different meaning to me from (google.com).

If you use Chrome, you might be interested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240646

Actually, yes, that did the trick for me; thanks! (Though I still think it's a feature that everyone would appreciate, so if it could go into news.yc, that would be even better.)

You will hear no disagreement from me. Glad it worked for you.

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=14829

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727178

And I am impressed by how bad their URL structure is.

Is that important?

Google thinks so, they use human readable permalinks on their official blogs: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-do-you-love.html

Isn't that just a side effect of using Blogger? I know why people demanded that feature for Blogger (imaginary effects on PageRank), but I imagine Google has a better algorithm than looking at text in the URL for content that they host. For example, they can find the post's title right in the database.

Yes, human-readable URLs are important.

They are important as additional clue to users.

They are important for SEO.

But most likely it would take Google+ years before they implement it (like it was with Blogger).

Does Google really care about SEO?

I very much doubt that users care about urls. (Yeah, you care, I care, sure, but nobody else.)

If you and I care about readable URLs why other users would not care? Everyone benefits from being able to read link that they see.

I'm just relieved that I can copy their URLs, email them to a friend and have them work ... since there are so many gaps in G+ sharing.

Although if the post is Limited, you just get a 404. Which isn't super friendly.

Its kind of problem for me, as G+ is blocked on my office network. ;) :(

Yep, for many people g+ will be the long form twitter. Google should throw some calendar / archive and search in there

OT: (FUD) All HN users will move to G+?

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