Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Canadian Government URL's...

... have got to be the worst URL's ever. Seriously, don't they have anybody who can look at their web addresses from a usability/public relations stand point? I was browsing the web looking for relevant links to put in the right column and came across this URL for the National Institute for Nanotechnology:

http://nint-innt.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/home/index_e.html

And believe me, such obfuscation is the norm. Here's the Canada Job Bank web address:

http://jb-ge.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/

I remember one time riding the LRT and seeing a poster for some gov't job site with a similarly obscure URL and deciding to check it out. Of course I could never remember the URL once I got to work (and Google didn't yet exist). I think I tried a half-dozen times before finally giving up...

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