Shortener

Find out what the fastest URL shortener is in the slideshow below. ❋ The Huffington Post (2010)

At the moment Google’s URL shortener is clearly dominating the market with perfect up time and extreme responsiveness — learn how you can use Goo. gl without a Google account or Google Toolbar here — but since it may not always be so WatchMouse set up a publicly accessible monitoring page to track URL shortening services. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mitt Romney's spokesman has confirmed that they will be changing the Mitt. ly domain shortener. ❋ Melissa Bell (2010)

Use URL "shortener" service that supports tracking. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(That's just some statistics from the bit. ly URL shortener, which is popular but not the only that people use. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Republican Mitt Romney took that advice, changing his mitt. ly shortener to mi. tt. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)

Firefox browser users eager to try out Google's new web link shortener, you can stop shaking your heads now: It's not you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In reference to the vb. ly incident: the domain's purpose (proclaimed by its registrants themselves) was to serve as a 'sex friendly URL shortener', mainly for adult uses. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)

Oh the irony of the hundreds upon hundreds of twitter links to this site, using a third party URL shortener. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You've got another way to point people to a Web address in a minimum of characters -- goo. gl, a new link shortener from Google launched in limited form last year but now open to anybody with a Web browser. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)

It needs to mimic how one would use a URL shortener service on a computer, but it also needs to cater to the many phones that cannot use copy and paste (yet). ❋ Unknown (2009)

But otherwise, goo. gl falls short of my usual link shortener, bit. ly. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)

URL shortener bit. ly boosts efforts to stop spam ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two weeks ago, Metcalfe says his year-old shortener site, Vb. ly, was shut down without notice by the domain host because it ran afoul of Libyan Islamic law. ❋ Melissa Bell (2010)

So the perfect mobile URL shortener service would need to do the following: ❋ Unknown (2009)

We were also told that we were "promoting an illegal activity" with our link shortener. ❋ The Huffington Post (2010)

We need a proper mobile shortener service « Digital immigrant ❋ Unknown (2009)

And there are 5478 other URL shortener services available to choose from. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Google's shortener competes with numerous other options -- for example, TinyURL and bit. ly -- that all do the same thing: Turn lengthy, unwieldy addresses into brief shortcuts that you can easily share on Twitter, in other status updates or in print. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)