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 ...

That’s the basic philosophy of an increasingly popular type of web service known as the URL shortener. These tools have a simple job: They will take a long, hard-to-type web address and transform it ...

Maybe it started as a joke, “What the world needs is another URL shortening service!” said as though we didn’t have enough already. Then, someone at Google heard the joke, took it seriously, committed ...

Whether it’s sharing your blog link on Twitter and still having room to say something, sharing a URL in a text message, or just wanting to prank a friend by not letting them see what web page you’re ...

Google announced that they are shutting down, closing, their URL shortener service on March 30, 2019. Google first launched it in December 2009, and less than ten years later Google is going to shut ...

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 ...

Don't lose customers or potential clients with long URLs – when sent via email or instant message, such URL can be rendered unclickable by line breaks. Some social networks don't accept URL strings ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Amazon and Twitter are the latest companies to offer their own URL shortening services, joining a crowded playing field of entrants. While the move by tech heavyweights Amazon and ...

Intelligence agencies don't always rely on hacks to monitor and influence political events. Motherboard has learned that the UK's GCHQ created its own URL shortener, lurl.me, to both disseminate ...

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 ...