What is b2go?
b2go is a service that shortens URLs such as web addresses. This is useful in many circumstances (see below) e.g. in email clients that break long URLs.
For example, you can turn
http://www.google.ch/#hl=de&source=hp&q=bob+rocks+gmbh&aq=0&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=Bob+Rocks
into:
http://b2go.li/-1a
Uses for b2go
Here are just a few of the many uses for b2go's URL shortening service:
- Shorten web addresses for emails, forum posts, blogs etc. which cannot handle long URLs and might wrap them, making them unclickable
- Lower the character count when texting web addresses to a mobile phone
- Hide the real URLs of affiliate links from visitors to your site
- Clean up bookmarks for social bookmarking sites or sites with low character limits like Twitter