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Google Is Shutting Down Its Goo.gl URL Shortening Service (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.

Google is replacing its URL shortener service, goo.gl, with Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL) as of April 13th. These new smart URLs will let you send people to any location within iOS, Android or web apps. Engadget reports: You won't be able to create new goo.gl short links after the 13th, but existing users can manage them via the goo.gl console for the next year. After that, all the links will still work, but you won't be able to access the console itself after March 30th, 2019. Google suggests creating FDLs from now on, or using other shortening services like Bitly and Ow.ly.

6 of 154 comments (clear)

  1. Dynamic Links are free forever, for any scale. by BitZtream · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Right up until next year when forever means they are shutting it down in 2 weeks

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  2. Transient services by Sivaraj · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is the schedule for shutting down FDL?

    1. Re:Transient services by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yeah, that was his point.

  3. Re:I've always used http://tinyurl.com/ by hcs_$reboot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another service is available http://thisisanurlshorteningse...

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  4. Goo.d by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    URL shorteners are of the devil - people should never be asked to click on an obfuscated link.

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  5. Re:That won't break the internet at all... by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For now. This is Google we're talking about, you know, that company that has a habit of killing products that don't meet its internal targets, users be damned? If the links continue to work for any significant period of time after March 2019 I'm going to be very surprised. Also, as food for thought, Google is also also in a position to expand all the "goo.gl" entries in their own search databases to link directly to their intended targets while breaking them for everyone else in the search biz. Not that a company that does no evil would do that, of course. /s

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