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 ...

Google may have partially walked back a plan to deprecate all shortened goo.gl links, but millions of links that rely on the link shortener will still break before the end of August. Links created ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...