Google has launched an API for its new url shortening service. When the company launched its goo.gl url shortener to world+dog in the fall, it promised to eventually provide a programming interface, and on Monday, it finally rolled the thing out at Google Code Labs – to much fanfare among the Googly set. "With this API, …

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Tuesday 11th January 2011 21:10 GMT felixthehat

tsk

splash out and buy g.gl?

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1. Wednesday 12th January 2011 10:09 GMT some vaguely opinionated bloke
  
  GMTA
  
  ... though I was considering gu.gl - just to try preserving the sound as well...
  
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Tuesday 11th January 2011 22:06 GMT frank ly

Worth a try I suppose

I just typed 'goo.gl' into goo.gl. It didn't break it but it certainly didn't shorten it.

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1. Wednesday 12th January 2011 12:43 GMT TeeCee
  
  Re: Worth a try I suppose
  
  Well that's just great. Somewhere on the planet a large data centre has just recursed itself into a black hole. Congratulations on being responsible for The End Of The World As We Know It.....
  
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Wednesday 12th January 2011 00:52 GMT JaitcH

Long past due, but still welcome

Google, in supplying this service, offers a virtually guaranteed reliable service that is unlikely to disappear, as others have on occasion.

Use with confidence.

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Wednesday 12th January 2011 09:55 GMT Gannon (J.) Dick

The answer is Norway (.no)

I assume Denmark got as good a price for Greenland (.gl) as Tuvalu got for (,tv).

Not that Google would ever even think of breaking ccTLD, that would be like, invading personal privacy.

Searching in vain for my Eric Schmidt halo icon ...

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