URL shorteners spit out links that are easier to share. More importantly, they let small businesses track marketing campaigns and other incoming traffic. Here are four top URL shorteners that can help ...

What’s the best URL shortener you can use? The answer for many of you was probably goo.gl for quite a long time now, but at the end of March this year Google announced its plans for shutting down ...

For social news and bookmarking services, 2009 has really been the tale of the customized URL shortener. Each of the three largest social sites (Digg.com, Reddit.com and StumbleUpon.com) have ...

Web URLs can get really, really long and that, in turn, leads to all sorts of problems. The first problem is one of simple usability. URLs that are 50, 100, or even 200 characters in length will wrap ...

Sharing long links over Facebook, X/Twitter, and other social sites can be a pain if the sites develop a technical slag. The best practice, therefore, is to shorten the URL that never expires. That ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Amazon and Twitter are the latest companies to offer their own URL shortening services, joining a crowded playing field of entrants. While the move by tech heavyweights Amazon and ...

Google [GOOG] has added a new service to its ever-expanding range of online services with the launch of a URL shortening service called goo.gl. The goo.gl service is slightly different from some of ...