URL shortening services that allow you to truncate lengthy Web addresses into shorter links have been around for a while now, but today Google announced g.co, a new URL shortener that links only to ...

Search giant Google has acquired the go.co domain that will only link to official Google products and services, the company revealed. The idea is that it will make it easier for users to find or ...

While it might make a particularly long URL look tidier, cloud services that use URL shorteners with only six characters could leave themselves vulnerable to malware attacks using brute force.

Google had created a website called “goo.gl” last year, opening its public URL shortening tool for everyone. It ensured that the users were no more dependent on Google Toolbar or Feedburner to use the ...

A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator, a tool used to find webpages. A URL is composed of a protocol, a domain name, a path to the webpage, and a webpage name. Here's a brief introduction to URLs and ...

I've been a very happy user of Saft for several years. However, with Safari 5.1 on Lion automatically restoring state, the only thing that's I really need Saft for is "URL shortcuts" (i.e. type "wp ...