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.

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01 · Entity

About goo.gl

goo.gl

Invalid Dynamic Link

Top 100 · #60 1 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit 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

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03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to goo.gl

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to goo.gl, thumbs down if it isn’t.

  1. 01
    Linkmake linkmake.in Top 10K English

    Linkmake

    Make your link safe using Link Protector

  2. 02
    Bitly bitly.com Top 10K English

    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.

  3. 03
    archive.is Top 1K

    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

  4. 04
    cutt.ly Top 10K English

    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.

  5. 05
    Lothar lothar.com Top 10K

    Lothar of the Webspace

  6. 06
    ngenix.net Top 1K Russian

    Доступ к сайту временно ограничен владельцем веб-ресурса.

  7. 07
    URIBL.COM uribl.com Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    Likee likeevideo.ru Top 10K

    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.

  9. 09
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

    Home Page

    API endpoint

  10. 10
    web.dev Top 10K English

    web.dev

    Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.

  11. 11
    kbz0pwvxmv.com Top 10K English

    Stream, shop, play - no matter where in the world you are!

  12. 12
    kinotik13.xyz Top 10K Russian

    Защита сайта

  13. 13
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

  14. 14
    Arch Linux archlinux.org Top 10K English

    Arch Linux

    Linux distribution

  15. 15
    Go go.dev Top 10K English

    The Go Programming Language

    Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.

  16. 16
    StumbleUpon stumbleupon.com Top 10K

    StumbleUpon

    content discovery platform

  17. 17
    Sitemaps sitemaps.org Top 10K

    sitemaps.org - Home

    The Sitemaps protocol enables webmasters to information earch engine about pages on their site that are available for crawling.

  18. 18
    PagesJaunes pagesjaunes.fr Top 10K French

    pagesjaunes : Trouvez plus que des coordonnées.

    telephone and business directory

  19. 19
    Domains googledomains.com Top 100 English

    Google Domains

  20. 20
    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

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.

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