That’s the basic philosophy of an increasingly popular type of web service known as the URL shortener. These tools have a simple job: They will take a long, hard-to-type web address and transform it ...

URLs can get long and unwieldy. The average web address is too complicated to type by hand, and URLs tend to look terrible when typed out in full. And if you're trying to include an URL in a Twitter ...

Maybe it started as a joke, “What the world needs is another URL shortening service!” said as though we didn’t have enough already. Then, someone at Google heard the joke, took it seriously, committed ...

Don't lose customers or potential clients with long URLs – when sent via email or instant message, such URL can be rendered unclickable by line breaks. Some social networks don't accept URL strings ...

Many of you have probably used Google’s URL shortener before. You can access it in any browser by going to goo.gl. It’s a pretty simple URL shortener, but then ...

A Webmaster asked on Twitter if let Google know about a URL shortener, so that the URL shortener does "hijack the page." I think he is worried about the URL shortener out-ranking the main URL. Here is ...

You can shorten a URL by using an URL shortener website, which will shrink your URL for free. Popular link shorteners on the internet include Bitly, TinyURL, and Rebrandly. You'll need a premium ...