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Goo.gl Is A Go. The Most Secure And Fastest URL Shortener On The Web

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Re: Goo.gl Is A Go. The Most Secure And Fastest URL Shortener On The Web

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Yay finally. I have to say I trust google more than bit.ly (how do they make money?) Here is a shortened link to the article http://goo.gl/BHTx - stats page: http://goo.gl/info/BHTx

bit.ly has smart people working for them, outstanding investors, and can pivot if needed. They're building up lots of analytics tools.

They have pro accounts, and custom shorteners.

http://bit.ly/pages/about http://bit.ly/pages/pro

I think bit.ly is pretty secure. They're in a different ballgame than the tiny ones.

Re: Goo.gl Is A Go. The Most Secure And Fastest URL Shortener On The Web

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post #2

Yay finally. I have to say I trust google more than bit.ly (how do they make money?) Here is a shortened link to the article http://goo.gl/BHTx - stats page: http://goo.gl/info/BHTx

Following bit.ly's convention, you can also just add a plus sign to the end of the URL to get sent to the stats page: http://goo.gl/BHTx+

Re: Goo.gl Is A Go. The Most Secure And Fastest URL Shortener On The Web

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Two things:

a) Always better to copy / paste article titles to HN. Without the quotes it sounds like "most secure, fastest" is TechCrunch's review of the URL shortner. It's not, that line is a quote directly from Google's press release.

b) Regurgitating Google's press release with a half paragraph objective view at the end is content farming - TechCrunch should sell out to AOL! Oh wait.

Re: Goo.gl Is A Go. The Most Secure And Fastest URL Shortener On The Web

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" You also know that when you click a goo.gl shortened URL, you’re protected against malware, phishing and spam" So if I send you a goo.gl link to goat.cx does Google stop that? What if you wanted to see goat.cx ?

Hopefully they do like safe.mn: warn user, but let them go to the site if they know what they are doing. http://safe.mn/NVr

Re: Goo.gl Is A Go. The Most Secure And Fastest URL Shortener On The Web

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post #8
post #7

" You also know that when you click a goo.gl shortened URL, you’re protected against malware, phishing and spam" So if I send you a goo.gl link to goat.cx does Google stop that? What if you wanted to see goat.cx ?

Hopefully they do like safe.mn: warn user, but let them go to the site if they know what they are doing. http://safe.mn/NVr

Not clicking that.
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