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Google Shortens URLs To G.Co When Linking To Google Page

Co-existing with goo.gl, Google’s new URL shortener will only work with Google properties, giving potential clickers a taste of what’s to come. And the bonus? It’s viddy short, at just four characters in length (plus the unique string.) [TechRadar]


July 7, 2011
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How To Create A Vanity URL For Google+

Your Google+ profile ID is a horrifying string of meaningless numbers. For example, mine is 111203177111013925515. Gah! Here’s how to pretty it up.


June 15, 2011
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Lady Gaga And 50 Cent’s URL Shortening Service Sounds Dumb

Does the world really need another URL shortener? One backed by Lady Gaga, 50 Cent and Pepsi, at that? One that’s run by a CEO described almost entirely by the fact that he lives on New York’s hipster-laden LES (Lower-East Side)?


June 8, 2011
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You Can Now Shorten Your Links On Twitter.com

Some Twitter users out there enjoy using Twitter’s website instead of a mobile app to compose their thoughts in 140 words or less. Now these brave web-oriented folk can shorten links using Twitter’s own shortening service.


October 7, 2010
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URL Shorteners In Peril As Libyan Government Seizes .ly Domain

Ugh! Dictatorships! Always spoiling our fun! That cutesy URL shortening service you might use (bit.ly, perhaps) is riding on Libya’s .ly domain suffix. And Libya ain’t pleased – one shortener, vb.ly, was recently shut down for violating Libya’s oppressive laws.


October 1, 2010
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Google URL Shortener, Goo.gl, Finally Gets Its Own Website

Previously relegated to the Google Toolbar and Feedburner, Google URL Shortener finally has a web site of its own.


December 15, 2009
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Google Shows Off URL Shortening Service Goo.gl Fr Svng Chrctrs

Unless you use Google Toolbar or FeedBurner, Goo.gl won’t be of much use to you for now.