goo.gl

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goo.gl is Google's link shortener service that will stop redirecting short links on 2025-08-25. Google announced that starting 2018-04-13, no new short links could be created, but existing links would continue to redirect. On 2024-07-18, they announced that existing links would no longer redirect after 2025-08-25.

IndieWeb Examples

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Silo Examples

• Google Maps creates shortlinks like: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7B5SjtoxUMavkpnz7 using the subdomain maps.app.goo.gl.

Articles and blog posts

Initial announcement:

• 2018-03-30 Michael Hermanto: Transitioning Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links (archived)
  • New URL for this announcement (archived)

2024 update:

• 2024-07-18 Sumit Chandel, Eldhose Mathokkil Babu: Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (archived)

See Also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_URL_Shortener