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Summary: New York [U.S.A], Apr 1 (ANI): Technology giant Google on Sunday announced that it is shutting down its URL shortening service, goo.gl.

Every year the trend is up for the international use of short URLs. Branded URL Shortening is an excellent tool for online marketing.

Therefore, they keep communicating to their numerous advertising sites or URLs to update pop-up or advertisement and commercial content areas.

[5]'s study compared anti-phishing capabilities of popular plug-ins, showing different blocking rates of phishing URLs at 0 hour and after 24 hours (see table 1).

In this paper, features that are highly effective in detecting phishing URL's are analyzed using a modified version of C4.5 classification algorithm.

One catch to the customer URLs, however,according to website Mashable, is that Google says in the fine print that it might start charging for them some day.

"We're making these changes over the next few days, and we'll be offering custom URLs to many more profiles and pages in the future.

"It is possible that spammers are setting up their own URL shortening sites since legitimate URL shortening sites, which have long suffered with abuse, have slightly improved their detection of spam and other malicious URLs." www.symantec.com.