Google is shutting down its goo.gl URL shortening service

Google is shutting down its goo.gl URL shortening service

Byryan

Google announced last week that it is shutting down the goo.gl URL shortening service. A URL shortening services is an online service that takes long, unwieldy addresses and creates a new, shorter address that it is easier to share. I’ve covered the Chrome extension before, which made it very easy to use. The timeline for…

Google’s url shortener, goo.gl has an extension and can also create QR codes

Google’s url shortener, goo.gl has an extension and can also create QR codes

Byryan

A url shortener is used to take a very long link and make it shorter. The shorten links are more easily shared then their longer counterparts, since the longer urls may get cut off in email or other ways of messaging. Google offers a url shortener at https://goo.gl, which works well when you want to…