URL shorteners spit out links that are easier to share. More importantly, they let small businesses track marketing campaigns and other incoming traffic. Here are four top URL shorteners that can help ...

Converting a long URL name into a short one. Also called "URL redirecting," there are free URL shortening services on the Web that take a long URL and convert it to a short one for publication on a ...

A URL used to say something about a Web site's owner - a memorable name that replaced a complex set of numbers that were used to access a Web page. Then things changed. In today's world of Twitter ...

Google today launched its own URL shortening service, aptly named the Google URL Shortener (http://goo.gl/). The service is, for the moment, only available in the ...

Spammers have created their own services to shorten URLs (uniform resource locators) in an apparent attempt to circumvent security measures in place at well-known shortening websites, according to ...

URL shortening services are ubiquitous these days so we tend to forget how these systems can be exploited if not properly secured. The latest example comes via an announcement that Cli.gs, the 4th ...