Closed nelsonic closed 5 years ago
According to the "Birthday Paradox"
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=62%5E6
Last year Google announced discontinuing support for their Short URL service https://goo.gl https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html
I used to use the service:
It's not the first time Google has discontinued a product/service and it definitely won't be the last ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_services
I downloaded the CSV of the links I created for one of my accounts:
I understand that Google has little to benefit from maintaining/running this service ... But how much does it really cost to run the service given their vast infrastructure...?
Read: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11326598/how-do-url-shorteners-guarantee-unique-urls-when-they-dont-expire
Question: How Many Links Can be Shortened with 6 Characters?
Answer 1: Without Collision Avoidance -> Not Very Many!
According to the "Birthday Paradox"![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/194400/47958310-d41a2c00-dfc0-11e8-87fc-8c9b00355b20.png)
Answer 2: With Database Collision Detection -> 56.8 Billion
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=62%5E6![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/194400/47958351-c2855400-dfc1-11e8-8d12-05665a538d22.png)
tl;dr
Last year Google announced discontinuing support for their Short URL service https://goo.gl https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html
I used to use the service:![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/194400/47958249-be583700-dfbf-11e8-879a-79b9b950d423.png)
It's not the first time Google has discontinued a product/service and it definitely won't be the last ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_services
I downloaded the CSV of the links I created for one of my accounts:![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/194400/47958195-6ec53b80-dfbe-11e8-84d1-3269f6d2aba7.png)
I understand that Google has little to benefit from maintaining/running this service ... But how much does it really cost to run the service given their vast infrastructure...?