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

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Post by wwortiz » Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 12:31 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #9

jusob wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you do you just get:

The link may not be safe

Safe.mn Safe.mn is a URL shortener service: we transform long URLs into short ones. Before Safe.mn redirects visitors to the long URL, we ensure the final destination is safe. We have found the following potential problems with the website:

Questionable content: Adult

and then a link to the site.

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

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Post by Groxx » Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 2:49 AM UTC

amazingman wrote: post #10

The more Google does, the less I trust them.

Yes. Fight The Man because they keep doing things. We must stop that kind of reckless behavior.

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

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Post by adrianwaj » Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 3:54 AM UTC

To make it even faster, they should get an alternative 3-letter domain to act as an alternative, like how j.mp woks with bit.ly.

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

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Post by ashitvora » Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 4:33 AM UTC

Google doesn't have API for URL shortner. Do they? Also, I doubt if applications already using bit.ly will switch to Google's one soon.

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

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Post by mfukar » Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 4:48 AM UTC

"The Most Secure..."

Challenge, accepted.

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

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Post by drdaeman » Fri, Oct 01, 2010, 5:55 AM UTC

Still, the shortest and fanciest name (in my opinion, of course) is bit.ly's http://j.mp/ :)