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, ...

Now Google is officially retiring its long running URL shortening service. From next month, starting August 25, 2025, any link using the “https://goo.gl/” format will stop working. Instead of ...

When Google introduced its goo.gl URL shortener in 2009, it came at a time when the web wasn't littered with similar services. Since then, many companies have emerged to offer similar functionality.

Google had planned to shut down its own URL shortener for good at the end of August 2025, meaning that Internet addresses abbreviated with goo.gl will no longer work. However, around three weeks ...

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 ...