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Google's official URL shortcut just for Google websites

g.co

8 points·aeurielesn··4 comments

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Hasn't this been around for quite some time? g.co links are used on all of the official Google twitter accounts.

This has been around since at least 2010.

July 2011 actually.

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/gco-official-url-sh...

You'll also get a g.co link if you click the link icon in Google Maps and then tick the Short URL box. http://g.co/maps/s6hjr

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