External developers can now integrate Google’s Goo.gl URL shortening service into their websites and online applications through a just-released API (application programming interface). In addition to ...

Google this week launched an API intended to enhance the company’s URL shortener. The company rolled out the Google URL shortener in September, but it lacked an API to integrate the shortener into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just a quick note, because we know how much you love APIs: Google has opened its URL shortening service to third party developers.

URL shortening services like TinyURL or Bitly have long become an essential part of the modern web, and are popular enough that even Google killed off their own already. Creating your own shortener is ...

Fueled by Twitter's popularity, services to abbreviate Web addresses are taking off. They bring a host of problems, but some are working to fix them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...