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goo.gl

Productivity — The URL Shortener by Google [Web App, Tech]
Productivityfreeest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 8.0 · 1/4
8.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 1599 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
goo.gl
edge
direct origin
server
ESF
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

goo.gl's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Any Podcast Recommendations?entertainmenttag-overlap100%8.0-0.3— unverified
Product Hunt Maker Stories - Kevin Nguyenothertag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Yet Another ICOentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Snapvicecommunicationtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Really Good Questionsentertainmenttag-overlap100%16.00.0→ redirected
Equaleentertainmenttag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
The Girlie Show with Kanye Westdev-toolstag-overlap100%16.00.0→ redirected
Product Hunt Maker Stories - Nick Adlerothertag-overlap100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfree
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

1 disclosed funding round on record. See the full cap table on the product profile →

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:43Z400goo.glESF1502unknown
2026-08-19 14:06Z400goo.glESF730unknown
2026-08-11 00:40Z400goo.glESF720unknown
2026-08-08 06:34Z400goo.glESF1903unknown
2026-08-05 18:53Z400goo.glESF989unknown
2026-07-30 18:08Z400goo.glESF923unknown
2026-07-23 09:30Z400goo.glESF2268unknown
2026-07-17 09:33Z400goo.glESF7919unknown
2026-07-10 10:55Z400goo.glESF1578unknown
2026-07-04 12:51Z400goo.glESF602unknown
2026-06-23 14:00Z400goo.glESF857unknown
2026-06-21 17:04Z400goo.glESF428unknown
2026-06-21 17:04Z400goo.glESF1350unknown
2026-06-20 00:45Z400goo.glESF619unknown
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · goo.gl · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/goo-gl · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.