Shortest URL shortening service

URL shortening services allow people to remember the addresses (URLs) of websites having long characters easily and make producing them in text through memory enjoyable. The URL shortening service dates back to 2002 and till sate there had been some thousand websites launched to provide people the advantages of a URL shortener.


While twitter automatically shortens the long URLs to allow space for more relevant words to be inserted in the posts, the URL shortening services have had many downfalls in its 12 years career. Every shortened URL has an alphanumeric code that is unique for the site and directs one there. For example the URL ‘http://www.free-online-tv-shows.com’ ingg.gg generated the link ‘http://gg.gg/39r’ that is unique. However, this does not mean that ‘http://gg.gg/39r’ will lead to the above website.


All shortened URLs must be registered before they can actually be used to direct users to certain web-pages. There are certain forums that block the posting of shortened URLs, while some short URLs may fall under the category of spammers because there are people who abuse these services for spamming. Reports have is that 64 % of the URL shortening services that have been introduced have shut down. Short URLs have also been used to conduct malicious works like child pornography that have lead to their closure. Some short URLs might lie unused, or the service provider might not be able to deliver long term services, which results in ‘linkrot’ or in other words the link and the chain of its associated links break away.


The services of gg.gg are yet to be tapped to the fullest potential with their url shortener chrome plugin.