Google announced on Friday plans to shut down goo.gl, its long-time URL shortening service. The service is still active, but starting April 18, Google says that only existing registered users will be ...

Google announced that it will stop serving the Google URL Shortener, so any URL that was set up to redirect using goo.gl, which Google stopped supporting adding new ones back in 2019, will also stop ...

On March 30, 2019, Google stopped users from generating new goo.gl links, but it continued to support existing ones created before that date. Starting August 23, 2024, Google will warn users whenever ...

With Google Killing Goo.gl Links, Experts Warn of Widespread 'Link Rot' Goo.gl is set to be fully deactivated next year, giving developers some time to update before it's too late. But millions of ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

When Google introduced its goo.gl URL shortener in 2009, it came at a time when the web wasn't littered with similar services. Since then, many companies have emerged to offer similar functionality.

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 ...