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Submission + - Google Unveils goo.gl URL Shortening Service (goo.gl)

eldavojohn writes: The Sultan of Search is unveiling a new service (currently only available for Google Toolbar and Feedburner) that will tackle a very old problem usually solved by bit.ly or tinyurl--URL shortening. Now, we've heard cries for sanity to prevent potential issues (like what if tr.im had shut down and broken millions of links?) but with one of the goliaths of the industry jumping in the ring it looks like URL shortening is here to stay. And a quick note for people who enjoy privacy, goo.gl explicitly states: 'Please note that Google may choose to publicly display aggregate and non-personally identifiable statistics about particular shortened links, such as the number of end user clicks.' You didn't think Google was going to sit back and let bit.ly harvest juicy data on 2.1 billion links that were clicked in November without trying to corner some of that action to make their ad suggestions more accurate did you?

Comment Re:why would an adult talk to another child? (Score 1) 596

Here in Turkey, we love children. We enjoy asking questions like "what do you want to be when you grow up?" to children we even don't know. You are waiting in a line, the guy/lady in front of you has a smal child. It is perfectly normal to pat the child's head and ask a (possibly silly) question, even give babies evil eye as a gift. Children give the most unexpected and amusing answers to your simple questions.
If I try to do this somewhere in North America, I'll probably get arrested as a sexual offender.

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