To find a Web page you wanted in the pre-Google era, you often had to guess at its address. Was General Motors generalmotors.com, general-motors.com, or gm.com? This led to all kinds of trouble—a ...

Link shortening startup Bit.ly has said that it doesn't just want to help share content on the Internet -- it also wants to connect people to "the Web of things". Today, the company announced a ...

Bit.ly, the worlds most popular URL shortener announced a new service called Bit.ly pro in mid-December 2009. The service was designed to let bloggers set up custom URL shoreteners using Bit.ly’s well ...

VAIL, Colorado –Have you ever tried to e-mail a really long Web address to someone and have problems with it either cutting off or not sending properly? Or maybe you want to direct someone to a Web ...

Although Tiny.url was the first URL shortening service back in 2002, several other competitors - all using ad revenue to pay for the facility - have entered the URL shortening marketplace. Bit.ly said ...

QR codes went from zero to hero during the pandemic. But are people still using QR codes as much now that the pandemic is under control? Apparently so. During the first half of 2022, Bit.ly saw a 152% ...

There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...

I tweeted that article using Bit.ly, a URL shortener that allows me to track how many people clicked on the link I tweeted: The screenshot shows that Bit.ly had seen 343 total clicks to that URL ...