Google URL Shortener Opened To the Public 244
Anonymusing writes "Just what the world needs, another URL shortener, right? Google seems to think so, and it's making its own widely available to anyone — complete with tracking and statistics — for free. As noted on its blog: 'There are many shorteners out there with great features, so some people may wonder whether the world really needs yet another. As we said late last year, we built goo.gl with a focus on quality. With goo.gl, every time you shorten a URL, you know it will work, it will work fast, and it will keep working. You also know that when you click a goo.gl shortened URL, you're protected against malware, phishing and spam using the same industry-leading technology we use in search and other products.' Is bit.ly shaking in its boots?"
Chop off two letters (Score:5, Funny)
g.gl, get to it google engineers. Short as hell.
Unique feature (Score:4, Funny)
Testing the goo.gl (Score:1, Funny)
Do not want (Score:2, Funny)
The last thing the world need is yet another semisolid fat for food preparation.
Wait, what's the subject again?
Re:complete with tracking and statistics (Score:5, Funny)
the good shortened URLs are already gone (Score:2, Funny)
I wrote a script that would keep re-submitting my URL until I ended up with goo.gl/R2D2, but found out it was already used. I think I'll make a mosaic of the 23,864 QR barcodes on the side of a building somewhere as a social commentary.
Re:So, who's going to be the 1st to shorten goatse (Score:4, Funny)
It would be interesting to test all the 4-letter/number combos and see what the distribution of content is. A simple test with a common 4-letter word shows that they're censoring words from the url shortening pool.
BTW cr4p [goo.gl] brings you to facebook - how appropriate.
Re:complete with tracking and statistics (Score:5, Funny)
Re:complete with tracking and statistics (Score:5, Funny)
I got a rock...
Re:goo.gl/page (Score:2, Funny)