OMG! Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortening Service
The URL shorteners have become commonplace on the Web as a way to make web addresses, which would otherwise be very long, can be easily shared. This was especially important on Twitter when the web link characters used to count. The tech giant Google offered its own URL shortener called goo.gl in 2009, but the search giant has just announced that it will close the service and be replaced. In a post on the Google Developers blog, Firebase software engineer Michael Hermanto explained that the way we find content on…
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