Many of us are familiar with bit ly, tinyurl and all the other popular well know URL shortener’s. The main use of this URL shortener’s are to shorten long urls to something little.
Today Google released a new version of Google Toolbar, and FeedBurner. In both the Google Toolbar, and FeedBurner Google released a new feature ” Goo.gl “. Goo.gl is a URL shortener available free to use, but is only usable to people using Google’s Toolbar, and FeedBurner.
The new Google service main goals is
- “ensuring that the service has very good uptime”
- “protecting users from malware and phishing pages”
- “fast resolution of short URLs”
Basically the based on Stability,Security, and Speed. Sadly as i said early the goo.gl service is limited to people using the Google Toolbar, or using FeedBurner. Google wish is to provide this service to everyone.
The main question here is Google going to overtake bit.ly and tinyurl? Will Google find success in this industry?
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I find the URL Shortner is.gd to be the best one. Its the shortest and makes some sense : Is Good? Google just launched its public DNS and now this? What is it upto?
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Yeah .. when compared to bit.ly or is.gd – goo.gl has little long characters
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I use bit.ly i mainly use it cause you can track clicks, plus bit.ly links are well know to lead to safe sites. Esp when not recently they added more security features to protect people from spam. And there is now a rumor of bit.ly “pro” which is suppose to be release mid next year.
I don’t like goo.gl i have been trailing it today as a chrome extension, and i hate it. Esp considering how long it takes to generate a url…
Even if twitter may release its own domain service i would still stay with bit.ly. Esp when they offer API access.
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This is significant as Google and Facebook both launch their own short URL service. Now if Twitter launch the similar then what those free service going to do?
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then those free services will tie up with some big gaints
waiting for twitter to start its own service – Like tweet deck auto url shortening feature.. twitter web also should bring its own url shortening service .. so that when people put their links, it automatically shortens 
Nice idea na ?
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Great idea. Facebook launched its own don’t know why other sites shouldn’t follow.
Whatever it is Google has now made an another tremendous move.Hats off Google.
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bit.ly rockz… But will check out with Google. will Compare and decide. But good thing about bit.ly is your should only have long url wid u. But where as here we must use Google’s Toolbar, and FeedBurner. hmmm have to think of it.
Hi.
Look like Google want to be in everywhere.
Still waiting if Google can beat Bill Gates….
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I recommend using su.pr and avoiding this new shortener. There are good links online that explain why that I would be happy to share with you if you don’t see them right away.
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