Need to shorten a link? IT has you covered... Let's face it, links can be long and clunky. It's nice to have short, clean URLs when sharing them in emails, on social media and elsewhere. William & ...

Link Rot: URL shortening is a technique designed to turn long web addresses into shorter, more manageable links. This process can make life easier for web visitors, but it can also introduce a new ...

Today link shortening service Bit.ly introduced a redesign that turns it into something more than a link shortener, compromising what made Bit.ly so desirable in the first place. It's not that new Bit ...

Google may have partially walked back a plan to deprecate all shortened goo.gl links, but millions of links that rely on the link shortener will still break before the end of August. Links created ...

There’s a moment when you click a compelling link in an online article or product review and — Ugh. You land on a busted digital page. Google is about to create a deluge of busted links. The company ...

Some Twitter users out there enjoy using Twitter’s website instead of a mobile app to compose their thoughts in 140 words or less. Now these brave web-oriented folk can shorten links using Twitter’s ...

For years, URL shorteners have been an easy way to share lengthy links on the internet. Rather than typing out a web address that is both ugly and seemingly endless, you can put it through a shortener ...

After originally planning to have all goo.gl URLs stop working later this month, Google will now “preserve actively used links.” In July of 2024, Google said all existing goo.gl links would stop ...

Google previously announced it would end support for all goo.gl URLs on August 25, 2025. The company has reversed course and will preserve actively used shortened links. Links that were redirected in ...