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2. Bitly - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitly

   Launched. September 13, 2009; 14 years ago. ( 2009-09-13) Current status. Active. Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City. Bitly shortens 600 million links per month, [4] for use in social networking, SMS, and email.

3. TinyURL - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyURL

   TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs. Kevin Gilbertson, a web developer, launched the service in January 2002 [1] as a way to post links in newsgroup postings which frequently had long, cumbersome addresses. TinyURL was the first notable URL shortening service and is one of the ...

4. URL shortening - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening

   URL shortening. The URL shortener on Meta-Wiki. URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL.

5. Google URL Shortener - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_URL_Shortener

   Discontinued as of March 30, 2019. ( 2019-03-30) Google URL Shortener, also known as goo.gl, was a URL shortening service owned by Google. It was launched in December 2009, initially used for Google Toolbar and Feedburner. [2] The company launched a separate website, goo.gl, in September 2010.

6. Permalink - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permalink

   Permalink. A permalink or permanent link is a URL that is intended to remain unchanged for many years into the future, yielding a hyperlink that is less susceptible to link rot. Permalinks are often rendered simply, that is, as clean URLs, to be easier to type and remember. Most modern blogging and content-syndication software systems support ...

7. Wikipedia:URLShortener - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:URLShortener

   The Wikimedia URL Shortener is a feature that allows you to create short URLs for any page on projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, in order to reuse them elsewhere, for example on social networks, on wikis, or on paper. The feature can be accessed from Meta-Wiki on the special page m:Special:URLShortener.

8. URL redirection - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_redirection

   URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, is a World Wide Web technique for making a web page available under more than one URL address. When a web browser attempts to open a URL that has been redirected, a page with a different URL is opened. Similarly, domain redirection or domain forwarding is when all pages in a URL domain are redirected ...

9. Wikipedia:Linking to Wikipedia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Linking_to_Wikipedia

   You can "deep link" to a section of an article (or other Wikipedia page), using a hash character (#), then the section's title, with underscore characters (_) replacing spaces.