{"id":950121,"date":"2025-07-26T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950121"},"modified":"2025-07-26T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:05:47","slug":"googles-goo-gl-url-shortener-will-stop-working-permanently-from-aug-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/26\/googles-goo-gl-url-shortener-will-stop-working-permanently-from-aug-25-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s goo.gl URL shortener will stop working permanently from Aug 25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now Google is officially retiring its long running URL shortening service. From next month, starting August 25, 2025, any link using the \u201chttps:\/\/goo.gl\/\u201d format will stop working. Instead of redirecting, it will lead users to a standard \u201c404 Not Found\u201d error page.<\/p>\n<p>It was first launched in 2009. goo.gl was created to help users shorten long URLs, particularly for sharing on social media platforms or in emails. As it came, it became a popular tool, offering fast redirects and basic analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Google is officially retiring its long running URL shortening service. From next month, starting August 25, 2025, any link using the \u201chttps:\/\/goo.gl\/\u201d format will stop working. Instead of redirecting, it will lead users to a standard \u201c404 Not Found\u201d error page. It was first launched in 2009. goo.gl was created to help users shorten long URLs, particularly for sharing on social media platforms or in emails. As it came, it became a popular tool, offering fast redirects and basic analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}