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 ...

The long-running clock on Google's URL shortener goo.gl finally has a death date: Aug. 25, 2025. That's when links that were shortened using the defunct service will no longer be accessible, according ...

Google announced on Friday plans to shut down goo.gl, its long-time URL shortening service. The service is still active, but starting April 18, Google says that only existing registered users will be ...

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, ...

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 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 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 ...

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