goo.gl
goo.gl
Who runs goo.gl, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest URL shortening alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Part of google.com
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Bitly
Measured from goo.gl’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit goo.gl01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs goo.gl
goo.gl
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Part of
- google.com Runs this domain’s DNS
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What goo.gl tracks
We couldn’t read goo.gl’s homepage (HTTP 400), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to goo.gl
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to goo.gl, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Bitly | Short URLs, QR Codes, and More
Bitly makes it easy to create, share, and track short links and QR Codes. Find what's resonating and scale it into bigger reach, more clicks, and more sales.
Very close - 02
Short.io — URL shortener with custom domains & analytics
Free URL shortener with custom branded domains, analytics, and QR codes. Create up to 1,000 branded short links at no cost. No credit card required.
Very close - 03
Cuttly: URL Shortener, Branded Domains, Short Link Analytics
URL Shortener with branded short links & QR Codes. Shorten long URLs instantly, track every click. Link in Bio, Campaigns, Surveys and Teams in one platform.
Close - 04
Linkmake
Make your link safe using Link Protector
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ShrinkMe - Most Trusted URL Shortener Network with Highest Payout Rates
Highest Paying URL Shortener 2026 - Some of the reason to choose ShrinkMe.io are Daily Payments, Live Chat Support. Only Minimum Payout, Highest Payout Rates, Easy to use Member Panel and 20% Referral Bonus as well
Close - 06
Webpage archive
archive.is allows you to create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
Close - 07 Very close
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exe.io - Monetize your traffic with the highest CPMs!
exe.io is a free link shortener: earn for every 1,000 views your links get, at a rate set by the visitor's country, then withdraw your balance.
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Monetize your Gaming Links
Monetize your gaming content with LootLabs. Shorten and share links to earn revenue, track performance, and level up your gaming monetization strategy.
Close - 10
w3id.org - Permanent Identifiers for the Web
Secure, permanent URLs for your Web application that will stand the test of time.
Close - 11
Geniuslink - URL Shortener for Creators and Affiliates
Intelligent URL shortener that routes users to different destinations based on device, operating system, country, and more. Maximize your Amazon earnings.
Close - 12
Mastodon.social
The original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
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Ghostarchive, a website archive
web archiving site
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Curlie - The Collector of URLs
Curlie directory - Collector of URLs
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Tenor GIF Keyboard - Bring Personality To Your Conversations
Say more with Tenor. Find the perfect Animated GIFs and videos to convey exactly what you mean in every conversation.
Close - 16
StumbleUpon
content discovery platform
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sitemaps.org - Home
The Sitemaps protocol enables webmasters to information earch engine about pages on their site that are available for crawling.
Close - 18
Mojeek
Mojeek is a web search engine that provides unbiased, fast, and relevant search results combined with a no tracking privacy policy.
Close - 19
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Close - 20
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles goo.gl’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones goo.gl uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what goo.gl adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 1 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to goo.gl’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=7o3yquoyjiue2na6brk0mxzcxqb9w7
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on goo.gl 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on goo.gl 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on goo.gl 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on goo.gl 8/20
- nginx · not on goo.gl 5/20
- jQuery · not on goo.gl 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on goo.gl 3/20
- PHP · not on goo.gl 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on goo.gl 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on goo.gl 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on goo.gl 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on goo.gl 3/20
- Atlassian · not on goo.gl 2/20
- Google Cloud · not on goo.gl 2/20
- Slack · not on goo.gl 2/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on goo.gl 2/20