For social news and bookmarking services, 2009 has really been the tale of the customized URL shortener. Each of the three largest social sites (Digg.com, Reddit.com and StumbleUpon.com) have ...

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 ...

Google gave its URL shortening service goo.gl a standalone site on Thursday, allowing users to input and shorten links. The service allows users to take any link and transform it into a shorter goo.gl ...

If URLs are too short, they're easily guessable using brute-force techniques, which can expose users' data and identities. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. URL shorteners such as Bitly, Ow.ly and Is.gd are a way of ...

Google has announced that it has begun shutting down its URL shortener goo.gl. Here are the best alternatives to that let you shorten your links as well as track different types of data… Bit.ly is ...

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 ...

Everybody spies on everybody on the internet, right? News organizations monitor users’ behavior on their sites to find out which articles do well and where visitors come from. Marketers and social ...

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.