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 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, ...

Google's New Service: Google URL Shortener was originally created to shorten long URLs and make them easier to share. However, it will be fully discontinued on August 25, 2025. Google had announced ...

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 ...

The long-running clock on Google's URL shortener goo.gl finally has a death date: Aug. 25, 2025. That's when links that were shortened using the defunct service will no longer be accessible, according ...

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 ...

Links created with Google’s URL shortener will return a 404 error starting August 25th. Links created with Google’s URL shortener will return a 404 error starting ...