URL shorteners are great for packaging links that you want to share on blogs, social networks and messaging services. Unfortunately, they can pose grave security risks, as two researchers discovered ...

URL shorteners have been around for a while, and can be rather useful. This is especially true when using services like Twitter, which limit the number of characters you can use. But there are hidden ...

Finding a way to climb up in PageRank without spending a ton of money is good for any small business. While URL shorteners have been around for many years, marketing experts say the manner in which ...

They may save you some real estate in that tweet, Facebook post, or text, but URL shorteners aren’t doing you any favors when it comes to security. According to new research from Cornell Tech, bit.ly ...

Since Twitter limits messages to 140 characters, users have quickly come to depend on “URL shorteners.” These free services take the long URLs for links that we find on the Web and shrink them to a ...

Converting a long URL name into a short one. Also called "URL redirecting," there are free URL shortening services on the Web that take a long URL and convert it to a short one for publication on a ...

Web redirection through universal resource locator (URL) shorteners is adding extra seconds to page load time and only a few have optimized their domain name servers (DNS) for international users, ...

A URL used to say something about a Web site's owner - a memorable name that replaced a complex set of numbers that were used to access a Web page. Then things changed. In today's world of Twitter ...

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 ...

Google announced a new URL shortening service Goo.gl. It doesn’t replace Bit.ly and others because it only works right now with the Google Toolbar (and Feedburner ...