http://goo.gl/ is the url shortner launched by google in competition to Bit.ly & Twitter...
Same Page, Different URLs
A great thing that both Google and Bit.ly do is allow you to shorten a URL and track the clicks you generate, using your unique short URL, versus the total number of clicks to the long “destination” URL that have gone through each system.
That make your head hurt? Consider this. Here’s the URL of Google’s blog post today on the new shortening service:
http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-url-shortener-gets-website.html
When I shortened that URL and tweeted it, this is the short URL I was given:
http://goo.gl/dWpW
But Google also tweeted the blog post, with this URL:
http://goo.gl/k4Gj
Same Page, Different URLs
A great thing that both Google and Bit.ly do is allow you to shorten a URL and track the clicks you generate, using your unique short URL, versus the total number of clicks to the long “destination” URL that have gone through each system.
That make your head hurt? Consider this. Here’s the URL of Google’s blog post today on the new shortening service:
http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-url-shortener-gets-website.html
When I shortened that URL and tweeted it, this is the short URL I was given:
http://goo.gl/dWpW
But Google also tweeted the blog post, with this URL:
http://goo.gl/k4Gj
Source url : http://searchengineland.com/google-url-shortener-opened-to-the-public-51964
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