Alternatives and competitors
Sites like goo.gl
The 20 closest URL shortening alternatives to goo.gl, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 1 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to goo.gl? The closest matches are Linkmake, Bitly and archive.is. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 14 ms
01 · Entity
About goo.gl
Summary by Claude
goo.gl was Google's URL shortener domain, later used for Firebase Dynamic Links redirects; the root page shows only an error message and existing short links are being retired.
- Who it’s for
- Users of legacy Google short links
- Business model
- None (free Google service)
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to goo.gl’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to goo.gl
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to goo.gl, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Linkmake
Make your link safe using Link Protector
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Bitly | Short URLs, QR Codes, and More
Bitly makes it easy to create, share, and track short links and QR Codes. Find what's resonating and scale it into bigger reach, more clicks, and more sales.
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Webpage archive
archive.is allows you to create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
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Cuttly: URL Shortener, Branded Domains, Short Link Analytics
URL Shortener with branded short links & QR Codes. Shorten long URLs instantly, track every click. Link in Bio, Campaigns, Surveys and Teams in one platform.
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Доступ к сайту временно ограничен владельцем веб-ресурса.
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URIBL.COM - Realtime URI Blacklist
URIBL.COM is a Realtime URI Blacklist (RHSBL) served via DNS to identify Unsolicitied Bulk and Commercial Email (UCE/UBE) based on the links within the email. URIBL.COM is enabled by default in the popular opensource SpamAssassin.
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Page Not Available - Likee
Likee is a Short Video Community that allows you to explore more content of your interests and make more like-minded friends.
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Home Page
API endpoint
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web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
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Stream, shop, play - no matter where in the world you are!
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NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
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Arch Linux
Linux distribution
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The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.
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StumbleUpon
content discovery platform
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sitemaps.org - Home
The Sitemaps protocol enables webmasters to information earch engine about pages on their site that are available for crawling.
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pagesjaunes : Trouvez plus que des coordonnées.
telephone and business directory
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Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to goo.gl’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones goo.gl uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What goo.gl is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=7o3yquoyjiue2na6brk0mxzcxqb9w7
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what goo.gl adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- nginx · not on goo.gl 10/20
- Google Search Console · not on goo.gl 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on goo.gl 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on goo.gl 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on goo.gl 5/20
- Bootstrap · not on goo.gl 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on goo.gl 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on goo.gl 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on goo.gl 4/20
- jQuery · not on goo.gl 4/20
- Google Cloud · not on goo.gl 3/20
- PHP · not on goo.gl 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on goo.gl 3/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on goo.gl 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on goo.gl 3/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on goo.gl 2/20