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Google warns one last time: shortcut links will no longer work next month

The name of the service may be unknown to you, but there is a good chance that you have already crossed this domain name: from August 25, all the links starting with https://goo.gl/ will be depreciated, and will redirect to a page 404. This service ” Url Shortener Which made it possible to shorten the extension links in around twenty signs, closed its doors in 2019.

Their time is counted

In this case, this is not the first warning that Google gave to those who still used these links – for several years, each redirection has been accompanied by a warning on their future depreciation. The Mountain View firm justifies this service stop by a considerable drop in traffic through these links, by ” Consumption changes »Contents on the internet.

The consequences of such a closure will especially be felt with web archaeologists, who depend on referencing on the (rare) search engines still functional. A team of archivists, Archiveteam Warrior, has already undertaken the heavy task of saving and uploading the shortcut links in the Internet Database Archive.

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