Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here Tr.im, a service that offered users a way to shorten Web links so that they fit into short Twitter messages, ...

Previously relegated to the Google Toolbar and Feedburner, Google URL Shortener finally has a web site of its own. Google URL Shortener (Goo.gl) now has a simple web interface where you input a URL ...

Google’s URL shortener just opened up to the public, with a standalone site. Launched last December, Google’s Bit.ly competitor, Goo.gl can now be used for any links on the web. And Google promises ...

There’s been a flurry of news in the world of URL shortening of late. Google finally released its Goo.gl to the public, and not long after vb.ly was pulled for violating Islamic Sharia law. Not too ...

(CNN) -- Web-page addresses can be notoriously long, but even the normal ones seem absolutely huge in our age of Twitter and text messaging. Every letter counts when you have only 140 characters. Now ...

Google's Social Web Blog posted an update Thursday afternoon announcing the launch of the company's URL shortener, goo.gl. The company originally introduced the service as an extension of Google ...

Cloud hosting company Memset this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire URL shortening service Is.gd. Memset in a statement says it has thus secured the URL shortener’s future, and added ...

Web redirection through universal resource locator (URL) shorteners is adding extra seconds to page load time and only a few have optimized their domain name servers (DNS) for international users, ...

Links shortened with goo.gl will keep working, but the search giant will phase out the creation of new shortened links. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered cool ...