There are a lot of URL shorteners out there, and MakeUseOf writers have profiled most of them. Well, Google is now providing it’s own URL shortening tool: Goo.gl. The tool does exactly what you’d expect ““ take a long URL and output a small one ready for sharing on sites with restrictive character limits such as Twitter.

Currently the service isn’t available publicly, except through a couple of Google’s established services: Feedburner and Google Toolbar. So if you’re a user of either of those services you can already use Goo.gl from within those tools.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, “.gl” is the top-level domain name for Greenland.

Features

- shortens your URLs for use in micro-blogging sites.
- currently only integrated into Google Toolbar and Feedburner.
- no standalone version as of December 14 2009

Check out goo.gl. To actually use the service, try out Google Toolbar or Feedburner.