{"id":1256,"date":"2009-12-15T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T09:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/12\/making-urls-shorter-for-google-toolbar-and-feedburner\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:01:47","slug":"making-urls-shorter-for-google-toolbar-and-feedburner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/12\/making-urls-shorter-for-google-toolbar-and-feedburner\/","title":{"rendered":"Google launched URL shortner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has offered a new URL shortening service from Google called the <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/\">Google URL Shortener<\/a>. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/making-urls-shorter-for-google-toolbar.html\">Google Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople share a lot of links online. This is particularly true as microblogging services such as Twitter have grown in popularity. URL shorteners basically squeeze a long URL into fewer characters to make it easier to share with others. With character limits in tweets, status updates and other modes of short form publishing, a shorter URL leaves more room to say what&#8217;s on your mind \u2014 and that&#8217;s why people use them.First, we think people who use the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner will benefit from a shortener that is easily accessible \u2014 making it faster and easier to share, post and email links. Second, we&#8217;ve built this on Google&#8217;s global infrastructure to offer the following benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stability: Google&#8217;s scalable, multi-datacenter infrastructure provides great uptime and a reliable service to our users.<\/li>\n<li>Security: As we do with web search, shortened URLs are automatically checked to detect sites that may be malicious and warn users when the short URL resolves to such sites.<\/li>\n<li>Speed: At Google we like fast products and we&#8217;ve worked hard to ensure this service is quick. We&#8217;ll continue to iterate and improve the speed of Google Url Shortener.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google URL shortener is not a stand-alone service; you can&#8217;t use it to shorten links directly. Currently, Google URL Shortener is only available from the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner. Try it for <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/share-any-web-page-from-your-toolbar.html\">Toolbar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/socializing-your-feed-with-twitter.html\">FeedBurner<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has offered a new URL shortening service from Google called the Google URL Shortener. According to Google Blog \u201cPeople share a lot of links online. This is particularly true as microblogging services such as Twitter have grown in popularity. URL shorteners basically squeeze a long URL into fewer characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}