Google’s Shortened Goo.gl Links Will Stop Working Next Month

Google will officially deprecate links generated pinch its URL shortening instrumentality adjacent month. On August 25th, 2025, each links successful nan “https://goo.gl/*” format will nary longer activity and return a 404 correction message.

Google shut down its URL shortener successful 2019, citing “changes we’ve seen successful really group find contented connected nan internet.” Links created pinch nan instrumentality continued to activity since then, but Google announced past year that it would statesman deprecating them arsenic postulation to nan shortened URLs declined. “In truth much than 99% of them had nary activity successful nan past month,” Google said successful its July 2024 blog post.

At nan time, Google besides began displaying a informing page erstwhile users click connected a shortened URL, saying “this nexus will nary longer activity successful nan adjacent future.” With nan shutdown of “goo.gl” links conscionable a period away, now would beryllium a bully clip to modulation your URLs to different shortener if you haven’t already.