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 ...

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 ...

Starting on August 23 this year, when someone clicks on a goo.gl link, it could first take them to a page with a warning that says the link "will no longer work in the near future" before taking them ...

After August 25, 2025, web links that use the Google link shortener (as in, links with a “goo.gl” in them) will no longer work, per a developer blog. This may not seem like a big deal, but it’s part ...

Google is killing yet another service: the Google URL Shortener. As Dare Obasanjo comments on X, any links using the goo.gl shorter will break after August 25, 2025. When Google offers a service, ...

Google is deploying its own link shorteners, search.app and share.google, for content shared from Discover. The new short links obscure source websites but retain the ability to generate rich previews ...