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Google Isn’t Killing All goo.gl Links—Here’s How to Check Yours
Google has opted for a mixed approach: links that showed no activity in late 2024 will be deactivated, while those that did will remain usable.
Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links
G oogle is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl URLS that already show a message saying that they will be deactivated in August will still stop working — the company started showing the deactivation message nine months ago on URLs that “showed no activity in late 2024” — but otherwise,
Your old goo.gl links might not disappear later this month after all
Google today announced that it is tweaking its approach when it comes to killing off goo.gl URLs. The tech giant is still deactivating existing URLs, but it will let links that are actively used live on.
Google Will Break Your Goo.gl Shortlinks, Just Not All of Them
Google confirmed earlier this year that it was completely shutting down its goo.gl service, which would have permanently deleted all links created with the service. The goo.gl service was frequently used in social media posts—platforms like Twitter used to include each character in web links towards the general character limits.
Google now keeping ‘actively used’ goo․gl links, others will stop in August
After originally planning to have all goo.gl links stop working later this month, Google will now “preserve actively used links.”
Security News This Week: Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History
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Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines
It’s a strange glimpse into the human mind: If you filter search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines to only ...
Your chats with Meta's AI might end up on Google — just like ChatGPT until it turned them off
Meta lets you share your chats with its AI bot to a public feed. Google can index that feed — and make your searchable and ...
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After Backlash, ChatGPT Removes Option to Have Private Chats Indexed by Google
OpenAI deletes the option to publish conversations to search engines because it 'introduced too many opportunities for folks ...
Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers
Deep Think is based on the same foundation as Gemini 2.5 Pro, but it increases the "thinking time" with greater parallel ...
Google Patches Vulnerability That Let Anyone Hide Search Results
Google’s Refresh Outdated Content tool was exploited to de-index a press article, exposing a flaw that allowed attackers to ...
Google Home is still a mess, but at least it's fixed one of its most annoying camera issues
Google has released an update for the Home app that tackles multiple issues, including "no video available" and "Camera ...
Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same
On Thursday, a three-judge panel affirmed the lower court’s decision in Epic v. Google, according to a full opinion you can ...
How Google Cloud Is Tackling AI’s Biggest Data Unlock
Today's Forbes CIO newsletter focuses on using the troves of unstructured enterprise data you have, applying AI to find ...
Google stops funding of 214 groups, over 50 of them related to ‘diversity’ and ‘equity’: Report
Google has reportedly removed over 50 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) organizations from its public funding list, ...