YouTube Gets Its Own Short URLs. Except They're Still Pretty Long. Looks like Google is really going full steam ahead with its shortened URLs. Only a week after the search giant launched its own Goo.gl short URLs, its subsidiary YouTube is launching its own short URL service: youtu.be. In a blog post announcing the new feature, YouTube writes that the short URL will be used exclusively for YouTube
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