Google has announced that it will be “turning down support” for the Google URL Shortener that the company launched back in 2009. It enabled users and developers to create and track short URLs in the ...

What’s the best URL shortener you can use? The answer for many of you was probably goo.gl for quite a long time now, but at the end of March this year Google announced its plans for shutting down ...

Google has begun to pull back support for its goo.gl URL shortener service since yesterday, March 30. Michael Hermanto, Google's Software Engineer for Firebase, announced that starting on April 13, ...

Google has unveiled a new URL shortener, g.co, which will only be used to link to the company's official products and services. Although it already has another service, goo.gl, for abbreviating any ...

The goo.gl link is very common on the web and was first launched by Google in 2009. However, the company announced today that it’s winding down the URL Shortener beginning next month, with a complete ...

Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were previously ...

Google has announced plans to shutter its goo.gl URL shortener starting in April for most people and in early 2019 for everyone else. The service launched back in 2009, but the way users share content ...

Google gave its URL shortening service goo.gl a standalone site on Thursday, allowing users to input and shorten links. The service allows users to take any link and transform it into a shorter goo.gl ...

Google today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

Google provided an update to its planned URL Shortener shutdown, which was first announced in July 2024. The company says it will continue to support "active" URLs made through its shortener; however, ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google gave its Google URL Shortener history, analytics ...

Maybe it started as a joke, “What the world needs is another URL shortening service!” said as though we didn’t have enough already. Then, someone at Google heard the joke, took it seriously, committed ...