The argument against Long URLs

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Newsprint headings always used to be max 25 letters.

there's a memory....

I was just thinking about the TLD URL

Google treat hyphens (spinal-case) as word separators while the BBC (& Wikipedia) underscores (snake_case) are not so a search you would think might fall over, albeit rescued by the page title and other content

that's interesting...