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 ...

There’s a moment when you click a compelling link in an online article or product review and — Ugh. You land on a busted digital page. Google is about to create a deluge of busted links. The company ...

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 Backtracks on Killing All goo.gl Short Links: Here's How to Check Yours The link-shortening service dates back to 2009 and was scheduled for permanent deletion this month. However, to prevent ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...