goLook.at Short URL Service - Or is it?

I just learned of goLook.at URL shortening service. The point of this service is to make shortened URLs "better". How do they make them "better" you may ask? They add TAGS! I can't believe someone wasted their time adding tags to shortened URLs.

When you shorten a URL you do so because you want something AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE so that you can squeeze it into a tweet or an email. A goLook.at URL ends up looking like http://short.url/tag1/tag2/tag3 and gets longer and longer based on how many tags you add. That is the complete opposite of what you are trying accomplish by shortening a URL.

When shortening URLs, SHORTER IS BETTER.

I could see this working in the future though if you came up with a better tagging schema. You would have to base the shortened url off of a one word keyword. Most shortened urls have a randomly generated string which identifies the URL. Instead of using a random string it would use the keyword as the identifier. If another person chooses the same keyword you could prompt them for another, or append something to it that would make it unique.

for example this is the shortened url for this blog: http://d76.fi.gd

with a keyword "dotnet" you could make it short and better by generating something like http://dotnet.fi.gd

and if "dotnet" was already used to shorten another url you could prompt me for another keyword or suggest something like http://dotnet2.fi.gd, although I would probably choose another keyword.

Better yet, if you could infer a keyword for me, or give me a list to choose from (from my page title, meta keywords, the full URL, or page content) then I wouldn't even have to type anything in, I could view a list of possibilities and pick one.