In June 2013 the link has changed to use the Help Center. Not sure if it's still some goo.gl
link or not. It surely is not the old link anymore.
So the following is old:
One nice side-effect: we all got to see how often the thing was used. Just add the plus-character after the URL, just like with bit.ly
: http://goo.gl/C1Kwu+ (But it seems one needs to be logged in to some Google account to see that.)
Until March 19 2012: 11,020 clicks since May 11 2011, oddly enough only 9,318 without any referrer. Hence: at least 1/5th of the clicks came from sites that actually had a clickable link, even a few from Facebook. (Many browsers also do not set a referrer when opening a clickable link in a new window.)
More non-scientific fun, all-time, all-sites goo.gl
data, very roughly combined with the current SO visitor percentages from Quantcast:
══════Countries══════╤══Visits═
India 3957 │ 11.45%
United States 1908 │ 32.19%
United Kingdom 576 │ 5.56%
Canada 262 │ 3.45%
Germany 232 │ 3.85%
Pakistan 198 │ 0.63%
Australia 115 │ 1.88%
Singapore 108 │ 0.66%
China 103 │ 2.05%
Israel 81 │ 0.70%
══════Browsers═══════
Chrome 4494
Firefox 4435
IE 1094
Safari 741
Opera 204
chromeframe 15
Mobile Safari 14
Ubuntu 5
RockMelt 5
Mobile 4
══════Platforms══════
Windows 7829
Macintosh 1886
Other Unix 1141
Ubuntu 88
iPad 24
Linux 18
iPhone 13
iPod 11
(Smart enough to install Chrome Frame, and still getting blocked...! Sorry for the tall overview; the previous wide layout failed on small screens.)
s.tk/qban
? – nhinkle Nov 17 '11 at 3:07goo.gl
link or not. It surely is not the old link anymore. – Arjan Jul 24 '13 at 8:23