Google于2009年推出URL缩短服务goo.gl，曾被誉为最稳定、安全的短链服务。然而，2024年7月，Google宣布关闭该服务，标志着这一曾经备受推崇的工具的终结。

文章标题：goo.gl关闭时，你在哪里？

主要内容：

2009年12月，谷歌推出了URL缩短服务goo.gl，并更新了其工具栏和FeedBurner。当时，TechCrunch将其誉为“网络上最稳定、最安全、最快的URL缩短服务”。然而，到了2024年7月，谷歌宣布将在一年后关闭这一服务。

尽管goo.gl在推出时备受赞誉，但事实上，URL缩短服务的问题早已被预见。早在2009年，Scott Gilbertson就在一篇文章中指出，URL缩短服务存在链接失效、垃圾邮件和重定向错误等问题，无论是由谷歌还是其他公司运营，这些问题都无法避免。

为了应对goo.gl关闭带来的链接失效问题，著名的“Archive Team”团队再次挺身而出。这个团队曾成功保存了Geocities、Yahoo! Answers和Yahoo! Groups等即将消失的网络内容。现在，他们正在努力将goo.gl的短链接映射到其原始的长链接，以防止这些链接永久失效。

Archive Team开发了一个名为“Warrior”的工具，任何人都可以通过简单的命令行或图形界面操作来参与这一保存工作。截至2025年8月11日，已有超过3000人使用该工具保存了goo.gl的短链接，但仍有约230亿个链接需要处理，时间紧迫。

文章作者也积极参与了这一行动，截至8月9日，他已经上传了超过37万个URL，为保存互联网历史贡献了一份力量。尽管这一行动可能只是沧海一粟，但作者认为，这或许能帮助未来的人们解锁我们集体过去的秘密。

关键点：

• goo.gl服务从2009年推出到2024年宣布关闭，经历了从辉煌到终结的过程。
• URL缩短服务存在固有的问题，如链接失效等，这些问题在goo.gl关闭时尤为突出。
• Archive Team团队通过开发工具，号召公众参与保存即将失效的短链接，以防止互联网历史的丢失。
• 文章作者积极参与了这一行动，并呼吁更多人加入，共同为保存互联网历史贡献力量。

评论主要围绕Google关闭goo.gl短链接服务的决定展开，观点分为支持和反对两派。

支持关闭的观点： 1. 安全风险：goo.gl短链接容易被用于钓鱼攻击，威胁用户安全。 - "Having an official Google domain that anyone can hijack is dangerous, given that many people's main internet identity is GMail (aka their Google account)." (gkoberger) - "It was easy to redirect a goo.gl to a Google login page (which is on a real Google domain), and trick people into authorizing access to their account." (gkoberger)

2. 资源浪费：短链接服务维护成本低，但Google选择关闭以减少不必要的资源消耗。
   • "Considering a URL shortener is basically a KV data store, why? It's an insanely low amount of code to maintain a URL shortener." (giancarlostoro)
   • "The reason is they will save money and who cares about people who are using it." (anoncow)

反对关闭的观点： 1. 信息丢失：关闭服务会导致大量链接失效，影响互联网信息的完整性。 - "Google should offer to send (the public content from) their DB directly to The Internet Archive. It results in LESS overhead for Google than this attempt to scrape it, and results in better information." (mcherm) - "I wonder if anyone at Google considered just contributing the DB and the domain to the Internet Archive." (rickdeckard)

2. 信任问题：Google频繁关闭服务损害了用户对其产品的信任。
   • "Google already has severe trust issues with anything they launch. They hurt themselves because people expect whatever is being launched to be abandoned so why invest in it? Reputation matters." (jmyeet)
   • "It was obvious to me 10+ years ago that they only sustainable business products for them is search, yt, and marketing tracking/performance tools. Nothing else is stable, nor secured and there were examples of it before that shortener existed." (hollowonepl)

其他观点： 1. 短链接的实用性：部分评论认为短链接的实用性有限，主要用于字符限制或手动输入的场景。 - "It always seemed strange to me that people would use a link shortener (that they didn't own!) for anything other than Twitter, or the small use-case of manually typing a URL into a different computer that you couldn't sync in some other way." (thesuitonym) - "I've never quite understood URL shorteners. They seem like a way of opting into link rot and sending tracking data to third parties who aren't necessary for the client-server connection." (ants_everywhere)

2. 阴谋论：有评论猜测Google关闭服务是为了阻止竞争对手的AI和搜索引擎访问这些链接。
   • "Conspiracy: They're shutting it down so competitors' AI and search crawlers can't visit the links, but theirs can, since archiving efforts aside only they have the DB." (alexvitkov)

总结：Google关闭goo.gl短链接服务的决定引发了广泛讨论，支持者认为此举有助于减少安全风险和资源浪费，而反对者则担忧信息丢失和用户信任问题。此外，短链接的实用性和Google的动机也成为讨论的焦点。