{"id":3884,"date":"2025-08-01T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/some-goo-gl-urls-will-live-to-fight-another-day\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:14:45","slug":"some-goo-gl-urls-will-live-to-fight-another-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/some-goo-gl-urls-will-live-to-fight-another-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Some goo.gl URLs will live to fight another day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Google&rsquo;s shortened URLs are the horror movie monster of the Google Graveyard: They keep finding a way to stay alive. On Friday, the company said goo.gl links that don&rsquo;t show the above warning will work for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Google cut off the ability to create new shortened links. But it kept existing URLs active as a courtesy to those who relied on them. Then, a year ago, the company said its bit.ly rival would shut down completely on August 25, 2025. That appeared to be the final nail in the coffin. Not so fast.<\/p>\n<p>That brings us to Google&rsquo;s change of heart today. &ldquo;We understand these links are embedded in countless documents, videos, posts and more, and we appreciate the input received,&rdquo; the company explained.<\/p>\n<p>You&rsquo;ll know yours is shutting down if it currently shows a warning message. (&ldquo;This link will no longer work in the near future.&rdquo;) If it redirects to the destination without that detour, it will live to fight another day. Google says the survivors were chosen based on whether they showed activity in late 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Some goo.gl URLs will live to fight another day<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&rsquo;s shortened URLs are the horror movie monster of the Google Graveyard: They keep finding a way to stay alive. On Friday, the company said goo.gl links that don&rsquo;t show the above warning will work for the foreseeable future. In 2018, Google cut off the ability to create new shortened links. But it kept existing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/some-goo-gl-urls-will-live-to-fight-another-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Some goo.gl URLs will live to fight another day&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}