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Re: Google URL shortener available to the public

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Post by stevefink »

I know there's a plethora of URL shorteners these days, and most platform providers (eg: Twitter) are introducing their own so they can harvest analytics themselves. For whatever reason though, I keep trusting Google with all of my most personal information. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I have a feeling this will become my standard URL shortener just as Google Apps has become my standard for email, invoicing customers, document management and scheduling. Not to mention Google Reader for having information on all the RSS feeds I visit and Google's search knowing what links I am visiting daily, and probably thirty other products I'm using that stores my information on their servers.

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Post by redorb »

andymoe wrote: post #3

Nice simple public stats: http://goo.gl/info/Jvhu#two_hours Not a huge fan of the flash chart though. http://goo.gl/Jvhu http://goo.gl/Jvhu.qr EDIT: Better graph

the chart looks to be a hang-over from google.com/finance; I like the interactivity of it... I'm sure they will replace it with a html5/canvas solution as soon as they feel the adoption is worth it (for those alternatives)

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Post by jnoller »

Ugh. Google entering this pretty much wipes out the space - companies like bit.ly are going to need to work on seriously differentiating themselves from the pack, and even then I don't think they're long for the world.

I can honestly say I hope to never be in a market - or working on a product - where google suddenly decides to enter the game. Even if their offering sucks, or is broken, it sucks all the air out of the room because it's OMG Google.

Re: Google URL shortener available to the public

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Post by fletchowns »

I wonder what the web will be like in 10 years when most of these URL shorteners don't exist anymore and we're just left with a web full of links that go nowhere. I'm sure the Google one will survive, seems like we shouldn't have to use these URL shorteners at all though.
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