Google URL Shortener Opened To the Public

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?"

Comments

Chop off two letters

[Anonymous Coward]

g.gl, get to it google engineers. Short as hell.

Unique feature

[RichardDeVries]

goo.gl shortens goo.gl url's as well! No, I will not write an evil script. Someone has to do the 'No Evil', right?

Re:complete with tracking and statistics

[pitchpipe]

Am I doing this right? http://goo.gl/

Re:So, who's going to be the 1st to shorten goatse

[tomhudson]

Congrats. Your work?

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 brings you to facebook - how appropriate.

Re:complete with tracking and statistics

[tomhudson]

The best one? try cr4p - it links to Facebook. Easy to remember, and pretty descriptive.

Re:complete with tracking and statistics

[HybridST]

I got a rock...