Plenty of people use these for all kinds of things, but why use a publicly-hosted URL shortener when you can host your own instead? Here's the thing with URL shorteners: they collect a lot of data, ...

Initially launched in 2009, the Google URL shortener was the tech giant's attempt to corral lengthy links by feeding them into the shortener and producing tinier ones that started https://goog.gl/*.

The latest news about URL ShortenerDotless domains: Home to the Internet’s shortest URLs You may be familiar with some of the shortest internet domains used by major companies, such as m.me and ...

They also saw Bit.ly, is.gd, and cutt.ly URL shortening services being more prevalent. Reverse tunnel services shield the phishing site by handling all connections to the local server it is hosted on.

Users or websites providing these links might use URL shortener services. These are used to shorten long URLs, hide original domain names, view analytics about the devices of visitors, or in some ...

Getting Started With URL Shorteners If you start using a URL shortener, you'll learn the ropes as you set up the tool and start making new links. It's all pretty easy. If you are curious to learn ...

The "Spotlight Stories" VR studio closed its doors on March 14. The goo.gl URL shortener was cut off from new users on March 30. Gmail's IFTTT support stopped working March 31.

Google+: Owing to low engagement rate and a software bug, the social media service is being axed April 2 onwards. Goo.gl: A URL shortener, the service was discontinued last year.

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 ...

According to an announcement on the Google Developers blog page, from April 13 onwards, anonymous users and users who have never previously used the URL shortener to create shorter URLs will not ...

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 ...