Google is now letting users create customized short URLs for Google My Business listings. Google is calling these custom URLs “short names” and it appears only some businesses have access to them at ...

What’s the best URL shortener you can use? The answer for many of you was probably goo.gl for quite a long time now, but at the end of March this year Google announced its plans for shutting down ...

Google My Business is rolling out a new feature to let businesses define their short name and URLs within Google My Business. This way you can when you share your short name, customers can enter the ...

Google is deploying its own link shorteners, search.app and share.google, for content shared from Discover. The new short links obscure source websites but retain the ability to generate rich previews ...

Google might soon truncate the full address of websites you visit. By only showing the domain name of a website in the address bar rather than the full URL, Google’s move could actually help people ...

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 ...

Links shortened with goo.gl will keep working, but the search giant will phase out the creation of new shortened links. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered cool ...

Google has announced that it will be “turning down support” for the Google URL Shortener that the company launched back in 2009. It enabled users and developers to create and track short URLs 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 ...

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 ...

URL shorteners have become a ubiquitous presence on the web, largely due to the rise of Twitter. Tinyurl, Bit.ly and the like have come along to make those ugly long URLs look nice and neat in your ...

The program takes long, unwieldy URLs and miniaturizes them. Making a 20-character URL into an eight-character URL is handy for posting on microblogging sites and social networks, where space for text ...