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@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ The first time I encountered "go" links was at Google. Anyone on the corporate
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network could register a URL shortcut and it would redirect the user to the
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appropriate page. So for instance, if you wanted to find out more about BigTable,
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you simply directed your browser at http://go/bigtable and you would be redirected to
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-something about the BigTable data storage system. I later found out that the
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-first go service at Google was written by Ben Saggins to end the never-ending stream of
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-requests for internal CNAME requests. He described it as AOL keywords for the
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-corporate network. These days if you go to any reasonably sized company, you are
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-likely to find a similar system. Etsy made one after seeing that Twitter had
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-one ... it's a contagious and useful little tool. So contagious, in fact, that
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+something about the BigTable data storage system. I was later told that the
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+first go service at Google was written by Benjamin Staffin to end the never-ending
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+stream of requests for internal CNAME requests. He described it as AOL keywords
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+for the corporate network. These days if you go to any reasonably sized company,
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+you are likely to find a similar system. Etsy made one after seeing that Twitter
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+had one ... it's a contagious and useful little tool. So contagious, in fact, that
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many former Googlers that I know have built or contributed to a similar system
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post-Google. I am no different, this is my "go" link service.
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