Comment by edent

About 60k academic citations about to die - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=90&q=%22https://goo...

Countless books with irrevocably broken references - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22://goo.gl%22&sca_upv=1&sc...

And for what? The cost of keeping a few TB online and a little bit of CPU power?

An absolute act of cultural vandalism.