Go2.me - A Link Shortening Service

There is more than a fair share of link shortening services out there, simply because there is a demand for services such as these. If you have tried them all to no avail, or if you are just looking for alternatives to the ones you already know and love, a visit to this site might just as well be what you need.

Go2 is characterized by a “Comment” box that will let you make annotations and exchange insight with those you share the link with, as well as ranking the link itself by means of a “promote” option. The latter will empower you to add a tag or a group of tags that are eventually used to group together the most popular links, in an ordered fashion.

One advantage that Go2 has over other services (such as the popular TinyURL) is that the links are truly, truly short – 16 characters, in fact. Needless to say, every character whatsoever counts when micro-blogging, so that any advance in that field is more than valuable.

Go2 can be procured completely free – all you have to do is install the provided bookmarklet, and you can then start cropping URLs at will. Alternatively, you can shorten links at the site itself, and have a taster before downloading this bookmarklet and installing it.

“You can use Go2.me to take any long link (URL) and convert it to a shorter one that you can send in Twitter, IM, or Email messages. Your link will not only display the page you want to share, but also add an information box where your readers can comment on your link.”

It is a free and easy-to-use tool that does its job in a very accurate way.

How does it compare to services like TinyURL et al? How could it eventually top these services?