http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0543GrjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2F THANK GOD &rct=j&q=THANK GOD &ei=F45wetrWER6443IcD1cCkDf&usg=BCLjCWERfjkR432gSGFSgbg-Nffdx45Ghj_HV

Get used to it now that ICANN is allowing non-Latin characters into URLs. We'll need URL verifiers everywhere. Considering how easily Google's spiders are misdirected by malicious websites, I have little faith in Google's ability to do this correctly.

I don't like tinyurls etc. While it's nice that google will check them for safety, it's undermining the domain name system, certificate validation, and good sense measures.
Now I'm going to need a web browser that automatically expands tiny url's before I visit them so I can see where the heck I'm actually going. seems like an unnecessary extra step to me, making the internet a little bit slower and for what? It's just as easy to click on a short link as a long link or bookmark to a short link....

This seems to be heading to benefit / prepare people to use their DNS routing software as well. Use the google url shorten tool, have it quickly pass through googles DNS routing, hit google's speedy network for finding stuff, and get your results super fast, secure, with lots of added benefits. All the while having it all feed straight to google's database for storage and analyzing. LOL