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This is uncanny, we just brought you news of Facebook’s new shortened URL services when Google announces their own, Goo.gl.
The service is only available via Google Toolbar and FeedBurner, not as a stand alone service (yet).
Google are hoping to sell the service by focusing on what Google has become renowned for; stablity, security and speed. Google will also check sites being linked to by its service to ensure you aren’t being directed to malicious sites too.
There’s no news as to how far Google plan to take this. Whether we see analytics introduced and offerings for its business customers, or if the app merely remains as small part of its other services, we’ll have to see.
As mentioned, the service is not currently available as a stand alone offering, but to test it out either login to feedburner or download the Google Toolbar.
Hopefully we’ll see some Chrome extension for this pretty soon, as there is no Google Toolbar for their own browser…
Ha!
You have to use Firefox for the toolbar and I tried it, but no way I could make a http://goo.gl url
http://goo.gl/
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Youv’ve gotta be kidding me.
Short urls are so stupid. If it wasn’t for twitter they would barely exist and hardly be used.
Twitter has a few years left and once it’s replaced with something that is actually structured… it’s over for bit.ly
This comment was originally posted on TheNextWeb.com
Showing a short url is only handy when you get a Tweet via SMS.
But I don’t get why Twitter doesn’t auto expand a short url into a full url when viewing tweets on Twitter.com
I don’t even click on short urls anymore.
They often lead to shitty landing pages with ads and only redirect after 10 seconds.
I say: Give me full links or no links!