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 ...

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 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 ...

Links shortened with goo.gl will keep working, but the search giant will phase out the creation of new shortened links. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered cool ...

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, ...

What do you do? Well, that one is probably safe, as it uses YouTube’s own URL shortener. But what about all those other shortened URLS you see in emails, on Twitter and everywhere else? They could ...