Of course, TinyURL, the first of its kind, remains the heavyweight, seemingly immune from its drop-in-the-bucket challengers. But with $2 million from several renowned investors, Bit.ly is now in a ...

TinyURL.com is one such tool, along with bit.ly, goo.gl, and others. These services work by performing what’s called a browser redirect. They store the “real” URL in a database that associates it with ...

There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...