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 today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were previously ...

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 ...

The move, which was unveiled last August, 'didn't move relevant security metrics,' according to a Google staff software engineer on the Chrome team. Google has called quits on the notion of truncating ...

Google is quickly branching out into multiple areas of the tech landscape, and has today moved to ensure it has another segment of web-based services covered by introducing its own URL shortening ...

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 ...

Unless you use Google Toolbar or FeedBurner, Goo.gl won’t be of much use to you for now. In a blog post, Google Software Engineers Muthu Muthusrinivasan, Ben D’Angelo and Devin Mullins explained that: ...