TechCrunch has reported that Microsoft employees are internally using their own link shortening service based on Bing search engine.

Binged.it based URLs are being used on Twitter network.

Microsoft that it has been used internally and is likely to be made public soon. But the odd thing about binged.it is that it’s actually one character longer than Bing’s own domain, complete with the .com part. Sure, many Bing search query URLs are going to be much longer, but then why not just shorten them using the Bing.com domain or something smaller?

Google’s shortener, goo.gl, is 5 characters. Facebook’s is 4 characters. Bing’s is 8 characters. Bing.com is 7 characters. Fa.il.

Here is a sample shortened URL on binged.it: binged.it/4Hi4Ha

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