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Many have heard of bit.ly and tinyurl.com. These are URL shortening services. For the people who do not know what the purpose of a  URL shortening services is, I will provide an example.

Let's say you have the URL that you want to send to a friend and it is:

www.onetechtip.com/ere89943kj3jo3uiw84rw93u4jnwfnsmenfsnf$978343&*^%93nq39... on so for and on.

You  really do not want to tell your friend go to this website with a long URL. Instead you can paste the URL into a URL shortening services and in return will give you a short URL like:

shor.tl/website.

Now this is easier to remember and say.

Use this to you advantage and let me say that Google has released a URL shortening services at http://goo.gl/.