Google is continuing to revamp its sites. It announced that a new beautiful Google design was going to use across its dozens of products and sites and the roll-out has been progressing.
The latest site to get a redesign is the Google URL shortener goo.gl. The site has been around for more than a year now and, while ... |
7 March 2012
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Google has announced that it has acquired the g.co domain name which it will use to link to Google websites and services exclusively. The new URL shortener will live alongside goo.gl, but will only be available for Google official business.
"In the world of URLs, bigger is not always better. In 2009, we helped shr... |
19 July 2011
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Twitter is reintroducing a feature it dropped when it upgraded to the New Twitter, automated link shortening. Now, when you add an URL to your tweets, it will automatically be shortened to take up only 19 characters. You can also use your preferred URL shortener, if you want detailed analytics for example."We’v... |
8 June 2011
03:42 GMT |
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Google is enhancing its URL shortener service goo.gl with a couple of heavily requested features. It's now easier to copy the shortened URL since it is automatically selected. You can also remove shortened links from your dashboard if you don't want a particular one showing up."Since we launched our URL sho... |
14 April 2011
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Google's URL shortener is continuing its expansion with the launch of an API to enable third-parties to incorporate the service into their apps or websites. This should give a further boost to Goo.gl which is already considered one of the most stable shorteners out there, not in the least because it's backe... |
11 January 2011
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Bit.ly is still the most popular URL shortener on Twitter, according to an analysis of over 1.5 million tweets. Twitpic.com, the photo sharing platform, is the second most popular domain on the microblogging site.Cloud security firm Zscaler gathered 1.5 million links over a period of a few months to determine how man... |
29 October 2010
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Bit.ly remains the most popular URL shortening service out there, despite not being the default one on Twitter anymore. While there is plenty of competition, bit.ly manages to stay ahead, with help from features like the new QR codes for shortened links. QR codes come in really handy for mobile devices and since smar... |
13 October 2010
13:50 GMT |
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Google has just upgraded its URL shortener it unveiled quite a few months ago. The service had only been available in the Google Toolbar and via Google services, but it is now open to anyone wanting a shorter link. URL shorteners don't really get as much attention as a year ago when it seemed that one launched e... |
1 October 2010
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The URL shortening craze is, thankfully, over, but once in a while we still get a new service or a new feature related to this. Thankfully, Google’s latest addition is not another ‘me too’ URL shortener, but an actually useful tool for Google Maps. Anyone who has ever tried to send a Google Maps lin... |
12 July 2010
10:03 GMT |
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Google is just one of the big proponents of QR codes, two-dimensional bar codes that come in quite handy on mobile devices, but the technology is still not very popular in the US, or anywhere outside of Japan, really. That isn't stopping anyone, though, and Google has added a very neat trick to its URL-shortenin... |
8 April 2010
06:35 GMT |
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The URL shortener 'wars' have quieted down lately and everyone was getting accustomed to Bit.ly's unchallenged dominance in the space. With close to 80 percent market share a few months ago and still enjoying its position as the default shortener on twitter.com, the outcome seemed more than clear. The... |
7 January 2010
05:42 GMT |
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The URL shortener market just got a couple of big disruptions as possibly the two most powerful players in the web at the moment, Google and Facebook, have entered the market with their own URL shorteners. Facebook's approach is a rather cautious one, its shortener kicks in automatically only on the mobile site... |
15 December 2009
04:01 GMT |
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