Google is Shutting Down its URL Shortener Platform goo.gl
Google’s URL Shortener platform ‘goo.gl’ will no more be available starting 13 April 2018. Existing users will still be able to shorten their URL and view their analytics data through the same platform for one more year until March 30, 2019 when the platform will be officially discontinued.
Google URL Shortener is a feature of Google Inc that allowed users and non-users to shorten links and was useful when advertising links on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The platform was launched in 2009 in a bid to facilitate the sharing of links while allowing registered users to measure their online data traffic. Additional URL shortening services then popped up and drastically changed the way internet users found content on the World Wide Web from desktop webpages to app...