Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

Google volition officially deprecate links generated with its URL shortening instrumentality adjacent month. On August 25th, 2025, each links successful the “https://goo.gl/*” format volition nary longer enactment and instrumentality a 404 mistake message.

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

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