Other benefits to having your own custom short URL are things like consistent branding and increased link trust – no one likes clicking on random links, so knowing it comes from a trusted source goes ...

Just when you thought the web couldn’t possibly fit any more, a new URL shortener is on the loose, this time however, it actually makes some sense. Inside Facebook have spotted Facebook automatically ...

Fueled by Twitter's popularity, services to abbreviate Web addresses are taking off. They bring a host of problems, but some are working to fix them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Maybe it started as a joke, “What the world needs is another URL shortening service!” said as though we didn’t have enough already. Then, someone at Google heard the joke, took it seriously, committed ...

Google has offered a URL shortening service called ' Google URL Shortener,' but shortened URLs created with this service for the 'goo.gl' domain will no longer work in August 2025. Google has offered ...

Google is officially shutting down its goo.gl URL shortening service and will introduce Firebase Dynamic Links, or FDL, as a replacement come April 13. The service, which launched in 2009, was useful ...

Rickrolling is a stately, venerated tradition. It’s an artifact of simpler times, when a solid internet meme could consist of simply tricking someone into accidentally opening up a video of a tidily ...

When users click on the shortened URL created by d0z.me, an embedded iframe — part of an HTML document — opens with the shortened links, while a malicious piece of Javascript software “runs in the ...

Symantec has released the July 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report which contains the usual interesting and relevant facts regarding trends in spam and malware. Of particular interest in this report, ...

When users click on the shortened URL created by d0z.me, an embedded iframe — part of an HTML document — opens with the shortened links, while a malicious piece of Javascript software "runs in the ...