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 ...

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 ...

The rise of Twitter and other microblogging systems with constrained character counts has led to renewed interest in Web services that shorten URLs. Support for these services is often integrated into ...

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 ...

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, ...

Revised and expanded at 12:50 ET, with comment from Political Media president Larry Ward. The Republican party took down its innovative link-shortening tool Tuesday for several hours after pranksters ...