Saturday, October 2, 2010

Google's url Shortener Goo.gl goes Public

In this tech age internet replaced all traditional information search  techniques like getting from library..etc. Everything and even simple things you can find on net. There has been a rapid increase in the number of websites making the owners to name the site Long to look appropriate to the content. Unfortunatly this has turned into an annoying burden for users to type a long address ,especially in the age of twitter where message is of lessthan 140 characters. The answer for this is url shortener.
Url shortener is a service that takes long url and squeezes into a minute one. Making it easy for website owners and users for sharing ,sending links .

Google the notorious web Gaint recently launched a new feature in web segments :url shortener and made it public.back in december google started url shortener for google applications but was restricted to google applications.By making it public now google hopes to kill the other competitors. Google is serious about this product and sure of dumping the other shortners.

Google ,goo.gl  has a simple web interface where you insert a url you will receive a shorten url with just a click. Unlike other services like bit.ly it includes some hard striking features like :
a url tracking feature
traffic sources,referres and visitors preferences for countries,browsers and platforms. Google assures to offer stability security,speed ,automatic spam detection.  You can have the extensions of goo.gl . Get it from here if you are a chrome user.Click Here.
For firefoxusers Get it from here:

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