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**theentry** · 10-01-2010, 06:45 AM

It's brand new and looks pretty interesting:
The Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. For example, the short URL http://goo.gl/l6MS is a convenient shorthand representation for the long URL http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/...e-toolbar.html.

Also it gives you basic stats: clicks, country, platform etc. but these stats are public so anyone can access them.

Check out: http://goo.gl/

**daveysmith** · 10-01-2010, 07:05 AM

Very useful information

**casinocave** · 10-01-2010, 08:50 AM

Google is doing such a great job. This thread proves that point.

**smoseley** · 10-01-2010, 10:08 AM

I got mine.

http://goo.gl/U0mK

and

http://goo.gl/aRP2

**rypher21** · 10-04-2010, 05:09 AM

i was experimenting with this short url's and its pretty good

**ethanpol** · 10:17 AM

Great its working
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**merockysingh** · 10-04-2010, 06:21 AM

Yes This is going to be one of the best URL Shortener in future..

**Silvia12** · 10:16 AM

Yes, even i have tried it removed. Its great

**theentry** · 10-05-2010, 06:08 AM

I see it's going to be very nice for the spammers lol

**avisaudrey** · 10-05-2010, 09:30 AM

I've tried it and it pretty looks good. Another new feature from google.

**suichiro** · 10-05-2010, 02:54 PM

Well, it seems to be just like the other url shortener but does it have any difference for it was release by Google? What do you think?

**francis84** · 07:21 PM

Google have made their own URL shortener. =p
The only good about this is that you can save the shortened URL; meaning, you just need to retrieve it from your history.

**adammacbell** · 10-05-2010, 08:06 PM

I use Tiny URL because it has a Firefox extension that makes it easy to accomplish. I’m sure Google will come out with it’s own extension. However, I am still not too keen on it until they allow customization of the short URLs. Right now, the shortened URLs are random letters and numbers, which are hard to memorize. A more intuitive URL, like schoolpage or librarypage, would make the service a LOT better. Existing shorteners, like snipurl and bitly do this.