Google Is Killing Millions of Old Links. How to Check Yours.

Google is killing millions of old links. How to check yours.

Google may have partially walked back a plan to deprecate all shortened goo.gl links, but millions of links that rely on the link shortener will still break before the end of August. Links created with Google's URL shortener that are still actively being used will be "preserved," according to an Aug. 1 update to its original 2024 announcement. Initially, Google decided turn off its URL shortener tool and kill all goo.gl links, redirecting them t…

Google Changes Plans for Shortened Goo.gl Links – Pixel Envy

Google in July last year: In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google URL Shortener because of the changes we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the number of new popular URL shortening services that emerged in that time. This meant that we no longer accepted new URLs to shorten but that we would continue serving existing URLs. Over time, these existing URLs saw less and less traffic as the years went on …