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Google Acquires G.co Domain
dkd903 writes "Google has announced that they have acquired a new domain – g.co. They said, 'We’ll only use g.co to send you to webpages that are owned by Google, and only we can create g.co shortcuts. That means you can visit a g.co shortcut confident you will always end up at a page for a Google product or service. There's no need to fret about the fate of goo.gl; we like it as much as you do, and nothing is changing on that front.'"
... it will just be "g"
-- if you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine
Thanks largely to Twitter, a solution to a problem that doesn't exist (even text messages can be larger than 140 characters now on any modern phone).
Please keep me updated on other domains Google buy, you've just made my day better.
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Google hired the guy that made the original decision to use 2 digits for the year in dates back in the 60.
When asked, Joe Dinousaur said: "Well, if you think I saved memory then and it was 2 bytes per date, imagine what I can do now with millions of URLs. Back in the day I weren't able to convince Tim that he should stick to Pascal compatible strings in URLs, and now we're stuck with Kb long string in the URL. I believe with google's support I will be able to fix that horror."
G.co is much cleaner in its spelling. I think Goog.gl poses a huge security risk for users because someone could easily provide a malware link to something spelled remarkably similar to goog.gl. Honestly, a normal user is not going to "get" the concept of a TLD that is oh-so-clever in almost spelling out "Google." It is not intuitive. This is the same reason I never bothered with Delicious; I'm not going to play a guessing game as to where the dots could be ambiguously placed.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
try https://g.co/
g.co use an invalid security certificate
Certificate valide only for :
*.google.com , google.com , *.atggl.com , *.youtube.com , youtube.com , *.ytimg.com , *.google.com.br , *.google.co.in , *.google.es , *.google.co.uk , *.google.ca , *.google.fr , *.google.pt , *.google.it , *.google.de , *.google.cl , *.google.pl , *.google.nl , *.google.com.au , *.google.co.jp , *.google.hu , *.google.com.mx , *.google.com.ar , *.google.com.co , *.google.com.vn , *.google.com.tr , *.android.com , *.googlecommerce.com
(error code : ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
I don't see how exactly this fits the definition of "stuff that matters". Or "news for nerds" too, actually.
"Go forth, and be excellent to each other" --Bill & Ted
Yeah. It's Colombia. Twitter has one, and I'm surprised Conan O'Brien hasn't bought Co.Co yet (his new nickname). I remember the Super Bowl ad where GoDaddy said that .co was the new .com. It doesn't make any sense to me.
Yes.
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=42+St+-+Port+Authority+Bus+Terminal+%4040.757308,-73.989735&daddr=350+5th+Avenue,+New+York,+NY+10118+(Empire+State+Building)&hl=en&ll=40.75267,-73.987169&spn=0.009899,0.016158&sll=40.752459,-73.987169&sspn=0.009899,0.016158&geocode=FTzobQIdmQGX-w%3BFUvGbQIdERKX-yFzdY-mZOGFkSlpdBGzqVnCiTEsrLWKpFygrA&mra=ls&dirflg=w&z=16
is much better than
http://tinyurl.com/3e38b5d
1) In the former, I know what I'm clicking on at a glance: Google Maps.
1.5) I can also get a general idea of where in Google Maps it points.
2) Infinitely many such long links exist; not so with the short ones.
3) The long one can be shown as maps.google.com/maps?...
"If somebody asked me for directions to my house - " I tell 'em "Five miles north of Foreman, left on county road 116." If they aren't smart enough to find my house with those directions, I don't want them on my property. Hell, they might be dumb enough to do a swan dive into the well, or something, then sue me! And, it ain't just liberals who would do such a thing these days, either!
It's just mind boggling that people can't give or take directions anymore. Someone asked in a forum if the internet made you stupid. I wanted to argue "Not only NO, but HELL NO, the internet doesn't make you stupid!" Then, my kid walked through the room with his GPS positioning dohicky, apparently trying to figure out if he was home yet!
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
I just *knew* a bukkake joke was possible, thanks.
centralizing a location for all their services into 1 easy to remember domain [...] can't very well use Google because they already use it
Hmm, yeah, maps.google.com, mail.google.com, images.google.com, video.google.com, news.google.com, translate.google.com, scholar.google.com, docs.google.com, groups.google.com... obviously they can't use Google to centralize all their services, it's really kind of overcrowded already.