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Re:Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets by majormajor on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:22PM (#33979976)
Huh. This is a thing I've seen at a few companies now and never seen reference to them coming out of Google. It makes sense, but it's also completely standalone - "go to the page."
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Re:Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets by willnorris on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:38AM (#33980358)
A couple of the startups that do go links have blog posts on the history:

https://www.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/

https://www.trot.to/blog/2020/07/09/go-links-origin-story

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Re:Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets by Thorrez on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:59AM (#33980812)
Those 2 stories kind of contradict each other. One says Benjamin Staffin invented golinks, then later another Googler built golinks in 2006. The other says Benjamin Staffin created golinks around 2009/2010.
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Re:Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets by whatgaul on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:53AM (#33999473)
Original author of https://github.com/trotto/go-links here! We spoke with Benjamin directly, so I trust his recollection.
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Re:Golink: A private shortlink service for tailnets by dilyevsky on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:52AM (#33980424)
It was one of the most popular “mini-services” at google along side less useful things like percent/ (which shows your tenure percentile), memegen and bunch of others, maintained by like a single engineer on the side. These were (at least to me) what was so great about Google’s early engineer-driven culture. It was like the early web app age in a sense…
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