Google’s Goo.gl URL shortening service won’t be mistaken for Bit.ly or any of the other well-heeled URL shrinking services yet, but the search engine isn’t letting it go by the wayside. Google, which ...

Starting on August 23 this year, when someone clicks on a goo.gl link, it could first take them to a page with a warning that says the link "will no longer work in the near future" before taking them ...

For years, URL shorteners have been an easy way to share lengthy links on the internet. Rather than typing out a web address that is both ugly and seemingly endless, you can put it through a shortener ...

We told you this morning that Google is now rolling out iOS app indexing in search, but now the Mountain View company has come out to make another, related, announcement. As of today, goo.gl short ...

Link shortening is something I literally do at least once a day and it’s always goo.gl that I use. Google has announced they are making the move to shut down its goo.gl link shortening service to ...

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 ...

Another Twitter worm is on the loose, this time running rampant through the goo.gl link shortening service. In the latest Twitter worm attack, mobile users are subjected to a large number of messages ...

Many of you have probably used Google’s URL shortener before. You can access it in any browser by going to goo.gl. It’s a pretty simple URL shortener, but then ...

Twitter users, there's a new worm going around. Beware of bad Goo.gl links (like the one pictured above). It spreads when you click on the these links, so don't click if you see a Goo.gl link in a ...

When it comes to sharing web links, the goo.gl URL shortening service is one of the best options out there. Now Google is improving the service further by making it possible for app developers to ...

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There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...