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by devrandoom 324 days ago
Are they all public? Where can I see them?
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You can brute force them. They don't have passwords. The point is the only "security" is knowing the short URL.
I don't think so, but you can find the indexed urls here https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A"goo.gl" it's about 9,6 million links. And those are what got indexed, it should be way more out there
I'm surprised Google indexes these short links. I expected them to resolve them to their canonical URL and index that instead, which is what they usually do when multiple URLs point to the same resource.
archiveteam has the list at over 2billion urls with over a billion left to archive.