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In November 2009, the shortened links of the URL shortening service Bitly were accessed 2.1 billion times. [1] Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address. This is because the URL shortener can redirect to just about any web domain, even malicious ones.
The project appears to lack any record-keeping of which links have been previously removed, and the absence of clear guidelines meant that there was some variation in the standards for removal of YouTube links. Replacing YouTube links: Most link removals are uncontested, and the removed links are not replaced, but somewhere between 1% and 10% ...
Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, is a URL shortening service owned by Google. It was launched in December 2009, initially used for Google Toolbar and Feedburner. [2] The company launched a separate website, goo.gl, in September 2010. [3] [4] [5]
For each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL. According to the website, the shortened URLs will never expire. TinyURL offers an API which allows applications to automatically create short URLs. [2] Short URL aliases are seen as useful because they are easier to write down, remember or distribute.
The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks, on wikis, or on paper. The feature can be accessed from Meta-Wiki on the special page m:Special:URLShortener. On this page, you will be able ...
With URL redirects, incoming links to an outdated URL can be sent to the correct location. These links might be from other sites that have not realized that there is a change or from bookmarks/favorites that users have saved in their browsers. The same applies to search engines. They often have the older/outdated domain names and links in their ...
g.co is the top-level domain URL shortcut for Google, as announced on July 18, 2011. [1] According to Gary Briggs, Google's Vice President of consumer marketing, the .co purchase was to help users of the shortened domain, "always end up at a page for a Google product or service."