Last month, Google announced that it would be shutting down the goo.gl URL shortening service and replacing it with Firebase Dynamic Links. But before those short links disappear, scammers continue to ...

Google Maps is a crucial tool for businesses and users alike, and recently the service has undergone a change. For the past several days, users have noticed that clicking URLs in Google Maps results ...

For approximately five days now, if a searcher tries to click your website URL within your Google Maps listing, they will receive a “redirect notice” from Google. The notice reads: “The previous page ...

Google expert Philipp Lenssen details how to manipulate Google Maps URLs to zoom in close enough to see an individual camel in the middle of Africa. The technique doesn't work in all locations, but ...

A simple edit to the URL for a Google Map can get you a closer look than what Google allows via its zoom-in button. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming ...

For anyone with minimalist tastes or an inability to use copy-paste keyboard shortcuts, URL shorteners may seem like a perfectly helpful convenience. Unfortunately, the same tools that turn long web ...

Some years ago, I made a web app that tracks certain events. These events happen at certain locations. What I did back then is find the GPS coordinates and make a Google Maps URL to let people ...

Two security researchers have published research exposing the potential privacy problems connected to using Web address shortening services. When used to share data protected by credentials included ...

Google’s John Mueller clarifies that URLs are case sensitive, so it matters whether the characters are uppercase or lowercase. Variations in cases can make one URL different from another, similar to ...

If you click a Google Maps link on your iPhone, it either opens in the Google Maps app or — if the app isn’t installed — it opens Google Maps in Safari. But what if you prefer to have that link open ...