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 ...

Most of us have clicked on a bit.ly or t.co link without a second thought, and these links are practically everywhere. These are known as link-shorteners, or URL-shorteners, and these services are ...

Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Security researchers from ...

RSS reader Feedly has released to the public its new URL shortener that will compete against the likes of Bitly, TinyURL, and others. After 8 weeks of testing, the company has rolled out this new ...

Google has offered a URL shortening service called ' Google URL Shortener,' but shortened URLs created with this service for the 'goo.gl' domain will no longer work in August 2025. Google has offered ...

Google has given the Google URL Shortener service its own website over at goo.gl. The search giant says it launched the site because users were asking for a direct way to use the service. Google wants ...

To raise awareness of the extensive cybersecurity dangers posed by shortened URLs, a college student studying computer science has created his own URL shortening service that doubles as a weapon for ...