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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Links shortened with goo.gl will keep working, but the search giant will phase out the creation of new shortened links. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally covered cool ...

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 ...

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 ...