What will we remain web links in goo.gl? Nothing at all, from August 25! Google will indeed depreciate all the links created with its URL shortcuting service, closed a few years ago. But the shortcut links are still present and have not disappeared. They will soon lead to 404 pages.
1/08 update – Google rear machine. Finally, the GOO.GL links always active will always return to the corresponding web pages, announced the search engine. On the other hand, the URLs redirecting to the deactivation message on August 25 (for links having no activity at the end of 2024) will be well affected by the disappearance. All other GOO.GL links will be preserved and will continue to operate normally.
Article original, 25/07 — Launched in 2009, the service of Google allowing to shorten links (goo.gl/***) closed its doors ten years later, March 30, 2019. In fact, no one can create links with this format for 6 years, an eternity. But here it is: the service may have put the key under the door there is beautiful lurette, it does not prevent the goo.gl links are always present everywhere on the web – even if we now rarely fall on it, it is understood.
Links to 404 pages
A year ago, day to the day, Google warned that the links in the form goo.gl will soon be valid. We are there, or almost. From August 25, the GOO.GL links will lead to 404 pages, in other words these links will be irreparably broken.
Last year, the GOO.GL links presented an alert warning Internet users that these URLs would no longer be taken care of. But this time, there will be no warnings!
It is a silent disappearance, but heavy with consequences: a small part of the Internet will fade with these broken links. Google justified its decision by explaining that ” more than 99 % »GOO.GL links had not shown any activity in June 2024 – a figure probably even higher today. But even this rest, as tiny as it is, represents a digital memory that we are about to erase at once. A page 404 instead of memories, references, archives sometimes not found elsewhere.
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The Verge