{"id":638,"date":"2010-07-20T01:33:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/?p=638"},"modified":"2012-06-21T03:03:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T07:03:15","slug":"built-in-url-shortening-added-in-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/built-in-url-shortening-added-in-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Built in URL Shortening added in Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Google Maps URLs<\/strong> have always been long and messy. It\u2019s really unpleasant to paste a complete URL linking to a Google Map on an email, IM, or blog post.Specially for twitter users ,it is very inconvenient since there is a restriction of\u00a0 140 characters\u00a0 for each tweet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-675\" title=\"Enable Short URL Google Maps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Enable-Short-URL-Google-Maps4.png\" alt=\"Enable Short URL Google Maps\" width=\"310\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Enable-Short-URL-Google-Maps4.png 310w, https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Enable-Short-URL-Google-Maps4-300x295.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To start using short URLs on Google Maps(http:\/\/maps.google.com), all you need \u00a0to do is go to <strong>Google Maps Labs<\/strong> by clicking on the little green flask on the upper right corner. The next step is to \u00a0enable the <strong>Short URL<\/strong> option, which is the second on the list of experimental features. Refresh the page, and the feature should be good to go. We obtain a URL \u00a0something like this ..<em>goo.gl\/maps\/sss.<\/em><em>This is Google\u2019s<\/em> official URL shortening service that is being utilized. Goo.gl is entirely integrated into Google Maps once you enable it, so the only URL you see when you hit the Google Maps \u201c<strong>Link<\/strong>\u201d is the shorter and\u00a0 the simpler version.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u00a0 tried the option by giving the following in <strong>Search Maps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seattle, WA, United States<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The original URL before enabling the Short URL option:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Seattle,+WA,+United+States&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=27.781434,54.931641&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Seattle,+King,+Washington&amp;z=10\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Seattle,+WA,+United+States&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=27.781434,54.931641&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Seattle,+King,+Washington&amp;z=10<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The URL after enabling the Short URL option:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/7KsT\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/7KsT<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps URLs have always been long and messy. It\u2019s really unpleasant to paste a complete URL linking to a Google Map on an email, IM, or blog post.Specially for twitter users ,it is very inconvenient since there is a restriction of\u00a0 140 characters\u00a0 for each tweet. To start using short URLs on Google Maps(http:\/\/maps.google.com), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[94,93,95],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine","tag-google-2","tag-google-maps","tag-shorter-url"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}