Comments on: Use Bookmarklet and Firefox addon for Goo.gl URL shortener

By: Matthew Flaschen

Matthew Flaschen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:38:28 +0000

There is no analytics support yet for goo.gl.

By: Aditya Kane

Aditya Kane — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:28:19 +0000

@Nathan: Good point, might be worth researching about for checking it can be tracked with analytics. Ill try and see if i come across something,

By: Nathan Lilya

Nathan Lilya — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:36:02 +0000

Thanks a bunch for the good information – I was wondering about ways to use goo.gl, as I use chrome and didn’t see anything for it (then again, maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough). By the way, do you know if you can track these clicks like you can with bit.ly? I like the google service more (more secure, like others were saying) but I do miss the tracking stats. Maybe a way to add them to analytics??? Thanks!

By: Ruchi

Ruchi — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:20:06 +0000

It is only few days and the firefox addon is ready, this is cool, people are quite fast. Thanks for sharing it.

By: Aditya Kane

Aditya Kane — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:16:42 +0000

Thanks Matthew, made the changes to the post. Great work.

By: Matthew Flaschen

Matthew Flaschen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:42:08 +0000

I just confirmed that the extension ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/55308/ ) works on Firefox 3.6, and updated it so it’s marked as compatible.

By: Aditya Kane

Aditya Kane — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:41:56 +0000

@Abhisek: there is a need for security for something like a URL shortener as a lot of malicious websites are being sent to people in the form of short URLs. The last virus doing the rounds of Facebook actually uses short url. Because of short URL we have no idea which domain we are visiting until the page starts to load on the browser by which time it can be too late.

By: Abhisek

Abhisek — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:17:54 +0000

Arijit, I can’t see any need of security for something as simple as URL shortener.

By: Arijit Das

Arijit Das — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:53:29 +0000

Goo.gl short URL is really attractive and Secured tiny URL service.. Google had guaranteed its security!! Google always produces the best product over the web.