Most of us have clicked on a bit.ly or t.co link without a second thought, and these links are practically everywhere. These are known as link-shorteners, or URL-shorteners, and these services are ...

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Today link shortening service Bit.ly introduced a redesign that turns it into something more than a link shortener, compromising what made Bit.ly so desirable in the first place. It's not that new Bit ...

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 ...

Amazon offers an affiliate marketing program through which website owners and bloggers create links and earn fees when customers click the links and buy products from Amazon. These links are shortened ...

URL shorteners have become commonplace on the web as a way of making otherwise very long web addresses easily shareable. This was especially important on Twitter when web link characters used to count ...

Link Rot: URL shortening is a technique designed to turn long web addresses into shorter, more manageable links. This process can make life easier for web visitors, but it can also introduce a new ...

Twitter has just announced at its Chirp developer conference that it will be launching its own URL shortener. The company feels forcing using to leave twitter.com to shorten a link is absurd and ...

We hope you already know that you shouldn’t click on just any URLs. You might be sent one in a message; somebody might insert one under a social media post or you could be provided with one on ...