Google url shortener

Google has recently opened a new service: Google url shortener. This url shrinker service works like Bit.ly (we described it at the Setting up the blog entry), you can type an url and Google will create a shortcut for you. For example, I typed http://themunsonsapps.blogspot.com and I get http://goo.gl/HtWzn, passing from 35 chars to 20.

The great feature isn't the shortener itself at all, is the analytics service. Google tracks all the traffic of the shrunk url and displays all the stats in a graphicly by hour, day or month with the corresponding referrers. It also gives you information about the visitors profile, like country, browser and platform. It also has the QR Code feature for mobile phones, you can check it by appending ".qr" to the short link, like this: http://goo.gl/HtWzn.qr.