The recent trend of mobile emails is fast catching up with several smart phones that offer them on their devices. As a matter of fact, most users use mobile e-mail unlimitedly and several posts are also written via the mobile phone. Google has always been involved in the advent of such convenient and useful technology by making life easier for all mobile phone users which is also a step in the right direction.
The mobile phones have tiny screens and lots of text can be difficult to sort or scroll through easily. I blog and links get shared with me often via e-mail with a message to go along with them. Many times they are press releases so the URL’s can be quite long and I have to scroll quite a long way to get to the actual meat of the e-mail, an issue which Google is attempting to solve this by creating “Smart Links”.
The Smart links take links that are in there long form which is what Google terms as raw links and turns them into named links. These named links will show basically the title of the page so that you update all the information you need without scrolling all the junk. This app saves precious time and upgrades your email and mobile phone usage considerably.
Note: The only disadvantage is that Smart Links only works for a few Google services.
The only services supporting Google Smart Links which is very limited are Youtube, Google Maps addresses and directional queries and Google Sites web pages. I am perplexed why Google can’t pull the title of a web page to make a link a Smart Link and I am sure support for all domains will come soon.
With the release of “Smart Links” several users have questioned Google’s motive behind the feature and are suggesting this is their first step into the URL shortening business. The only thing that Google is doing is pulling the title of a web page and optimizing if for mobile phones with a direct link to the page.
I must conclude that this a great feature and while support for Google “Smart Links” is limited, it is indeed a step in the right direction.
