To raise awareness of the extensive cybersecurity dangers posed by shortened URLs, a college student studying computer science has created his own URL shortening service that doubles as a weapon ...

URL shortening sites have become popular with Twitter users, ever mindful of the 140-character limit, as a way to avoid pasting long, unwieldy URLs.

In the end, I think Squish is no doubt the best dekstop URL shortener out there. It’s packed with features, stable, easy to use and a full unlocked version can be purchased at the ridiculous price of ...

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.

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 ...

Google had already introduced its own URL shortener in 2009 and replaced it with the current service in 2018, as a result of which the URL shortener goo.gl was switched off and new short URLs ...

It’s hard to believe, but Google launched its URL Shortener tool all the way back in 2009. Although the tool was shut down in 2018, Google confirmed that goo.gl URLs would continue to redirect ...

Google will officially deprecate links generated with its URL shortening tool next month. On August 25th, 2025, all links in the “https://goo.gl/*” format will no longer work and return a 404 ...

Twitter tests its own URL shortener The microblogging service plans to wrap and abbreviate all links shared on the site in the same way other URL-shortening services such as Bit.ly do.