Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortener, Breaking All Links
Sumit Chandel and Eldhose Mathokkil Babu, writing for the Google Developers blog:
In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google
URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links because of the changes
we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the
number of new popular URL shortening services that emerged in that
time. This meant that we no longer accepted new URLs to shorten
but that we would continue serving existing URLs.
Today, the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google
URL Shortener. Please read on below to understand more about how
this will impact you if you’re using Google URL Shortener.
Any developers using links built with the Google URL Shortener in
the form https://goo.gl/* will be impacted, and these URLs will
no longer return a response after August 25th, 2025.
How much money could it possible cost to just keep this service running in perpetuity? Tim Berners-Lee wrote his seminal essay, “Cool URIs Don’t Change” back in 1998. It’s bad enough when companies go out of business, taking their web servers down with them. But Google isn’t struggling financially. In fact, they’re thriving.
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Sumit Chandel and Eldhose Mathokkil Babu, writing for the Google Developers blog:
In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google
URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links because of the changes
we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the
number of new popular URL shortening services that emerged in that
time. This meant that we no longer accepted new URLs to shorten
but that we would continue serving existing URLs.
Today, the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google
URL Shortener. Please read on below to understand more about how
this will impact you if you’re using Google URL Shortener.
Any developers using links built with the Google URL Shortener in
the form https://goo.gl/* will be impacted, and these URLs will
no longer return a response after August 25th, 2025.
How much money could it possible cost to just keep this service running in perpetuity? Tim Berners-Lee wrote his seminal essay, “Cool URIs Don’t Change” back in 1998. It’s bad enough when companies go out of business, taking their web servers down with them. But Google isn’t struggling financially. In fact, they’re thriving.