Billions of Google redirects to stop working next year – Search Engine Land
Google’s URL shortener service will stop serving completely on August 25, 2025, which will result in billions of redirected URLs to stop working after that date.
Google stopped allowing us to make new redirects with this service back in March 2019, the service initially launched in 2009.
“Starting August 23, 2024, goo.gl links will start displaying an interstitial page for a percentage of existing links notifying your users that the link will no longer be supported after August 25th, 2025 prior to navigating to the original target page,” Google wrote.
What it will look like. Starting August 23, 2024 those clicking on those redirected URLs will get this notice, this interstitial:
More details. Google wrote the following details around this service shutting down.
“Over time the percentage of links that will show the interstitial page will increase until the shutdown date. This interstitial page should help you track and adjust any affected links that you will need to transition as…
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