The Typo Millionaires

theodp writes "Slate's Paul Boutin reports on the sordid history of the oldest scam on the Internet. For almost as long as the Web has existed, there's been a thriving economy of sites, services, and software vying to grab you as soon as your mistype a URL. Studies estimate that 10-20% of all hand-entered URLs are mistyped, adding up to at least 20 million wrong numbers per day, helping to enrich the likes of porn purveyors, ISP's, Paxfire, Microsoft and VeriSign."

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slashdot

[digitalchinky]

I recall once typing in slashdot.org, (incorrectly) and ended up at a site displaying nice frequency/time graphs of how often that occured. (A lot)

I wish I could remember what it was - I think salshdot.org - (now just a black page with an automatic redirect)

One of those milk through the nose moments.

Re:Google are kings at this

[kd5ujz]

Try www.466453.com
This is Google spelled out on a touch tone phone.