Google’s URL shortener ‘goo.gl’ has opened its gate
October 1st, 2010 § 4 Comments
Atlast google‘s ‘URL shortener‘ service goo.gl has opened its gate for everyone. At first, when google introduced this service or if we say in their language ‘Trying an experiment’, they didn’t give it so openly. It was as a API only, so developers could use or integrate the service in their apps or extensions.
Now they have made it wide opened for end users so we don’t need any applications or extensions anymore to use the goo.gl URL shortening service.
The most important plus point about goo.gl is, it has a dedicated database to store the URLs that are shortened by people which means they are permanent pointer to the original URLs. So you can use the shortened URL after a very long time also and still it will redirect to the original site. Only a few URL shortener services got this advantage. The thing is, if a URL shortener concentrated more on giving a very short URL, that means the derived shortened URL will work only for a few amount time like 3 months or something. Then it will get deleted and will be available for another URL-to-be-shortened.
As a goo.gl user I can say, so far it worked for me like a charm. 
Give a try.
what about custom aliases?
So far google hasn’t given a customizable URL shortener service. I hope they will consider it soon
I am surprised that google would limit its shortening service. The amount of of information that could be gleaned from a url shortener of goo.gl’s scale would be significant.
I hope they wont limit it. As they have taken off the barriers by now I am expecting a far more wide opened service soon. By the way according to Lifehacker, goo.gl is the fastest redirector than every other URL shortener.