Google Mail, Voice, Wave…. You get the point. What doesn’t Google have a service for? You can now cross URL-shortening off that list.
Google has launched their own URL-shortening service, Goo.gl. The “.gl” is the top-level domain for Greenland. How clever of them. This service works much like TinyURL, in that it takes long URL names and shortens them, making the links easier to “share, tweet or e-mail to friends.” This service is currently integrated with Google’s FeedBurner and the Google Toolbar, and currently doesn’t allow third-parties like Twitter to access the site to use the service.
Right now, URL-shortening is hot. However, you don’t want to use a service that won’t be around in the future. That’s how you’ll end up with a lot of broken links, called link-rot. At this point it’s unclear just how successful this endeavor will be for Google, and whether this service is just their flavor of the month.
Google has launched their own URL-shortening service, Goo.gl. The “.gl” is the top-level domain for Greenland. How clever of them. This service works much like TinyURL, in that it takes long URL names and shortens them, making the links easier to “share, tweet or e-mail to friends.” This service is currently integrated with Google’s FeedBurner and the Google Toolbar, and currently doesn’t allow third-parties like Twitter to access the site to use the service.
Right now, URL-shortening is hot. However, you don’t want to use a service that won’t be around in the future. That’s how you’ll end up with a lot of broken links, called link-rot. At this point it’s unclear just how successful this endeavor will be for Google, and whether this service is just their flavor of the month.
-John and Mike
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