Is Google's url shrinker under "more", on the homepage? If not where is it?

Google’s url shorterner appears to be one that is no longer maintained. Note that the branding and entire style of the page is many iterations old.

Google has had many tools that they’ve shut down. Not that they appear to be doing this with their url shorterner, but it’s possible. It’s also possible that it’s just no longer maintained. At some point, they may either evaluate all of their projects and determine that they should kill this, or they may updated it to look like a modern Google product.

Also, url shorteners are not really a huge consumer-facing product like gmail, calendar, or docs. It’s probably a solid piece of code running fine and they’re ok with that because not many people even know about it. Plus, it doesn’t seem to be as popular as bitly or tinyurl.

They use it on maps.

And I think URL shorteners where pretty much brought to life around the time Twitter became popular and you needed short URLs if you wanted to post them there.

That isn’t really much of a issue anymore. I barely see shortened URLs anymore. And when I do see them I avoid clicking on them since it could be a link to Fox News.

@DoNotKnow and @johnpowell Was it ever located under “more”? If not, where was/is it located?

I think at one point it may have been located under “More” or “Even More”; now it’s under
https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/

Thanks all for your responses.

@BosM How do you get to that though?

It’s through the Google Developer Product site: https://developers.google.com/products/
Then search for the key word “URL”. Here is how they describe it. Hope this helps.

“The Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. Users can create these short links through the web interface at goo.gl, or they can programatically create them through the URL Shortener API. With the URL Shortener API you can write applications that use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short links from desktop, mobile, or web.”

But how do you get to Google Developer Product, from the homepage?