If you have a long URL, making it shorter is the best way to share it on social media and other sites. These three free tools ...

Google provided an update to its planned URL Shortener shutdown, which was first announced in July 2024. The company says it will continue to support "active" URLs made through its shortener; however, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Google previously announced it would end support for all goo.gl URLs on August 25, 2025. The company has reversed course and will preserve actively used shortened links. Links that were redirected in ...

After originally planning to have all goo.gl URLs stop working later this month, Google will now “preserve actively used links.” In July of 2024, Google said all existing goo.gl links would stop ...