$500M per Year for Google – In Typos!

Google may be earning an alleged $500 million a year via companies and individuals who register deceptive website addresses.

Some Harvard students have been keeping the calculators hot. They have calculated Google’s estimated revenue earned from the Google Ads placed on the sites of typosquatters.

The claim centres on a controversial scheme known as “typosquatting”, the practice of registering a misspelled variant of a popular web domain. For example, a typosquatter might register “newscientsist.com” in the hope of getting visits from people who meant to type “newscientist.com.”

I guess there are markets in everything. Oh, and by the way:

Google’s total 2009 revenues were $23 billion, 97 per cent of which came from advertising.

article | Typos May Earn Google $500M a Year – ABC News.
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