The group of search engine Google bought, Monday, July 18, the domain name g.co, designed to shorten the web addresses of all its services. "We will only use g.co to send you to web pages belonging to Google, and we are the only ones who can create shortcuts in g.co," said the vice president of marketing for Google, Gary Briggs on the group's blog. "This means we can go on a link shortcut g.co being sure to always land on a page of a product or a service from Google."
This new system is complementary to another service, goo.gl, launched in late 2009, which shortens the other Web addresses. Shorter addresses are used in particular on micromessagerie sites, like Twitter, where the text should have a maximum of 140 characters.
