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VMG
Yay finally. I have to say I trust google more than bit.ly (how do they make money?)

Here is a shortened link to the article http://goo.gl/BHTx - stats page: http://goo.gl/info/BHTx

benatkin
bit.ly has smart people working for them, outstanding investors, and can pivot if needed. They're building up lots of analytics tools.

They have pro accounts, and custom shorteners.

http://bit.ly/pages/about http://bit.ly/pages/pro

I think bit.ly is pretty secure. They're in a different ballgame than the tiny ones.

chris24
Following bit.ly's convention, you can also just add a plus sign to the end of the URL to get sent to the stats page: http://goo.gl/BHTx+
robertg
wow... and I get the stats linked to my Google account. Very nice.
aresant
Two things:

a) Always better to copy / paste article titles to HN. Without the quotes it sounds like "most secure, fastest" is TechCrunch's review of the URL shortner. It's not, that line is a quote directly from Google's press release.

b) Regurgitating Google's press release with a half paragraph objective view at the end is content farming - TechCrunch should sell out to AOL! Oh wait.

werftgh
" You also know that when you click a goo.gl shortened URL, you’re protected against malware, phishing and spam"

So if I send you a goo.gl link to goat.cx does Google stop that? What if you wanted to see goat.cx ?

jusob
Hopefully they do like safe.mn: warn user, but let them go to the site if they know what they are doing. http://safe.mn/NVr
jrockway
Not clicking that.
wwortiz
If you do you just get:

The link may not be safe

Safe.mn Safe.mn is a URL shortener service: we transform long URLs into short ones. Before Safe.mn redirects visitors to the long URL, we ensure the final destination is safe. We have found the following potential problems with the website:

Questionable content: Adult

and then a link to the site.

amazingman
The more Google does, the less I trust them.
Groxx
Yes. Fight The Man because they keep doing things. We must stop that kind of reckless behavior.
adrianwaj
To make it even faster, they should get an alternative 3-letter domain to act as an alternative, like how j.mp woks with bit.ly.
ashitvora
Google doesn't have API for URL shortner. Do they? Also, I doubt if applications already using bit.ly will switch to Google's one soon.
mfukar
"The Most Secure..."

Challenge, accepted.

drdaeman
Still, the shortest and fanciest name (in my opinion, of course) is bit.ly's http://j.mp/ :)