Just before the 1st anniversary of .co domain extension Google has announced g.co, the official URL shortcut for Google websites.
It is known that in 2009 Google launched goo.gl as URL shortener for its own use which was also used by general public (the internet users) as their cool URL shortener. Now, with g.co which was predicted to be launched much sooner after the launch of .co extension launch one year ago, Google is announcing a new URL shortcut that will only link to official Google products and services: g.co.
According to Google,
The shorter a URL, the easier it is to share and remember. The downside is, you often can’t tell what website you’re going to be redirected to. We’ll only use g.co to send you to webpages that are owned by Google, and only we can create g.co shortcuts. That means you can visit a g.co shortcut confident you will always end up at a page for a Google product or service.
There’s no need to fret about the fate of goo.gl; we like it as much as you do, and nothing is changing on that front. It will continue to be our public URL shortener that anybody can use to shorten URLs across the web.
So, over the next few weeks, it would be interested to see how g.co is rolled out and where it will be used.
A similar domain x.co was earlier launched by Godaddy as URL shortener with some cool features and was the shortest URL shortener. Now, after g.co, x.co has a competition, not now, but sometime later in near future.
The question that come is Will Google make g.co for public to create their URLs, Will g.co be linked to my Google Bookmarks. Let see what happens with g.co
