Check out some of the best and easiest ways of setting up your own custom URL shortener so that your links can look as professional as the best of them.

To raise awareness of the extensive cybersecurity dangers posed by shortened URLs, a college student studying computer science has created his own URL shortening service that doubles as a weapon ...

I host my own URL shortener, and while it may seem niche, it has its uses.

When URL shorteners first made their appearance a decade ago, the idea behind them was to make sharing website links easier, especially as some URLs, otherwise known as Web addresses, were more ...

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 ...

URL shorteners such as Bitly, Ow.ly and Is.gd are a way of life on social media. The advantages are clear: reduced character counts and useful statistics. But these services come with two major ...

Google gave its URL shortening service goo.gl a standalone site on Thursday, allowing users to input and shorten links.

It must have been World URL Shortener Day yesterday. First came the news that Facebook has been testing a URL shortener, fb.me. Then Google announced the arrival of Goo.gl. And though it wasn't as ...

Need to shorten a link? IT has you covered... Let's face it, links can be long and clunky. It's nice to have short, clean URLs when sharing them in emails, on social media and elsewhere. William & ...

The URL shortener service launched in 2009 for FeedBurner and the Google Toolbar. With neither of those services available, the same is now happening to goo.gl for both consumers and developers.