If you have a long URL, making it shorter is the best way to share it on social media and other sites. These three free tools ...

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 ...

Good, now it’s time to check out some of the best and easiest ways of setting up your custom URL shortener so that your links can look as professional as the best of them. Now that all URLs posted to ...

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 ...

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 ...