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 ...

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 ...

goo.gl links will stop working on August 25, 2025 Some users were being blocked from creating new goo.gl links years ago Google began warning users the links would stop working in 2024 A little over a ...

Google has offered a URL shortening service called ' Google URL Shortener,' but shortened URLs created with this service for the 'goo.gl' domain will no longer work in August 2025. Google has offered ...

Google is killing yet another service: the Google URL Shortener. As Dare Obasanjo comments on X, any links using the goo.gl shorter will break after August 25, 2025. When Google offers a service, ...

Link Rot: URL shortening is a technique designed to turn long web addresses into shorter, more manageable links. This process can make life easier for web visitors, but it can also introduce a new ...

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 ...

URL shorteners are a useful tool for shortening long Web addresses. They're also the source of such nightmarishly ugly addresses as "http://bit.ly/8g4wsd", which ...

When sharing a URL from the Google app on Android, Search and Discover automatically applies a link shortener. Google now offers a setting to turn this off. Previously, if you want to share a page you ...

Google announced that they are shutting down, closing, their URL shortener service on March 30, 2019. Google first launched it in December 2009, and less than ten years later Google is going to shut ...