<story><title>Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available</title><url>https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>The original 2018 announcement they link to said:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; While most features of goo.gl will eventually sunset, &lt;i&gt;all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;After March 30, 2019, all links will continue to redirect to the intended destination.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Emphasis in original, in bold!]&lt;p&gt;It is hard to read this as anything but saying the continued serving of redirects will _not_ eventually sunset, right? While &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; features &lt;i&gt;will eventually sunset&lt;/i&gt;, all existing links are not most features, and will continue to redirect.&lt;p&gt;Clearly they changed their mind. I mean, it&amp;#x27;s not shocking, especially from Google.&lt;p&gt;It would be decent and transparent of them to &lt;i&gt;admit it&lt;/i&gt; though. Yeah, we said that we were going to continue to redirect existing links, we changed our mind, sorry about that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available</title><url>https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jasonvorhe</author><text>How much would it cost Google to just keep a few hundred webserver replicas running on some Borg cluster somewhere that do nothing but match and redirect incoming requests to their destinations for a few more years?&lt;p&gt;Am I underestimating the complexity of this at Google&amp;#x27;s scale?</text></comment>