I’m not sure whether this is common knowledge or not, but I didn’t know so there’s bound to be at least a few of you who don’t too. To check analytics (clicks, browser, location, referrers) on a ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor The Google URL shortening service Goo.gl, that allows you to transform long Web addresses into short easy to remember links, was opened to the public Friday. With the introduction ...

Chrome: The Goo.gl URL Shortener Extension adds a button to your Chrome toolbar that brings one-click URL shortening via Google's super-speedy and reliable URL shortener, goo.gl. It's simply to use: ...

Google's URL shortening service, goo.gl, has added an API, giving third-party developers a way to integrate the service into their own apps. The new API means Twitter clients and other apps that use ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you like the idea of a URL shortener powered by Google but you're not really sold on the idea of having to install the Google toolbar to get access to it, the Goo.gl Bookmarklet takes care of that ...

Google on Wednesday announced new features to its URL shortener goo.gl, like copying to clipboard, spam reporting, and a one-click dashboard cleanse. Now when you submit a link to shorten, Google ...

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 ...