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google uRL shortener opened to the public; an alternative for bit.ly

All we know that Google is always best in providing web based services. It has many successful as well as failure projects. In this queue a long waited URL shortener feature ( goo.gl ) is opened to the public today. In previous days email was the only way to share our knowledge, URL’s of any interesting article, websites, etc... After Twitter came the online usage increase a lot and it changed the people’s lifestyle.  Since Twitter limited web users to publishing not more than 140 characters, URL shortening services have continued to populate the web space. The first url shortener was tinyurl.com and since then others such as bit.ly, is.gd, ow.ly, tr.im, South Africa’s (gatorurl.com), Facebook’s (fb.me), StumbleUpon’s (su.pr), Youtube’s (youtu.be), Friendfeed’s (ff.im), Sturvs’ (go.sturvs.com) amongst others. Today (Sep 30, 2010), Google launched their URL shortener service to the public. And its expecting to be a best URL shortening service around the web. In my next post, I