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"First off, a message to Google -- THANK YOU!\r\n\r\nFor years, we've had crazy-long URLs for Google Maps. \u00A0That is, of course, because of the huge amount of parameters that it takes to for the link. \u00A0But no longer are we going to have to use an outside URL shortener in order to share our links.\r\n\r\nAccording to Google Operating System, URLs within Google Maps will now have an auto-shortened option that will use the goo.gl shortener. \u00A0Add this to the cool new 45-degrees feature that we wrote about earlier today and Google Maps has just given us a couple more reasons to love it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNot much else to say, about this. \u00A0It's handy, it's something we already love to use. \u00A0What more can you ask?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://thenextweb.com/google/2010/07/09/google-maps-gets-native-url-shortening/>