The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites

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The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 20, 2006 @05:18AM from the make-them-stop dept.

nywanna writes "After seeing the example of Plenty of Fish and the reports of the site earning over $10,000/day in Adsense revenues, I quickly realized that there are a lot of ugly websites that are extremely successful. The reason for this, according to the article, is that ugly websites do a few things that beautiful websites tend to lack."

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slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-20 05:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe that's why slashdot is so successful?
Talk about Ugly.. by Azarael · 2006-03-20 05:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Just look at the website for the article:
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1. Re:Talk about Ugly.. by moochfish · 2006-03-20 06:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Slashdot beat it with an ugly stick.
2. Re:Talk about Ugly.. by Conanymous+Award · 2006-03-20 06:40 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The Slashdot Effect(tm) - Bringin the Ugly out of Your Website since 1997.
Obviously... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-20 05:21 · Score: 1, Funny

Obviously... I mean Slashdot seems to do OK.

FP?
So? by NoseBag · 2006-03-20 05:23 · Score: 5, Funny

ugly websites do a few things that beautiful websites tend to (not do).

Ugly women often have the same virtue.

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1. Re:So? by Scyber · 2006-03-20 05:32 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  ugly women do a few things that beautiful websites tend to (not do)???
Summary by truthsearch · 2006-03-20 05:26 · Score: 2, Funny

When many people come to an ugly page they click somewhere just to get away from it.

Personally I hit the back button, but I guess that's just me.

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Proof... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-20 05:27 · Score: 1, Funny

Pretty isn't a requirement for raking in money, case in point: Bill Gates.
Re:Well... by eln · 2006-03-20 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny

I really think you're underestimating the drawing power of Pakistani potato chips. I mean, I knew a guy who got $50 million in VC funding in 1998 for a website with nothing on it but a dancing package of Pakistani potato chips.
Re:Ugly sites... by AndroidCat · 2006-03-20 05:38 · Score: 2, Funny

I'd use an ugly site .. but only so I could get close to its beautiful sister site.

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I thought disclosing AdSense revenue... by MarkByers · 2006-03-20 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

...was a breach of Google's AdSense contract?

PS I have an ugly site. Can I have a front page link too? Thanks!

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Re:ugly sites load fast by OnlineAlias · 2006-03-20 05:49 · Score: 2, Funny

By your standards (and mine), I present the ugliest site evar...

http://www.acura.com/
Re:ugly sites load fast by AndroidCat · 2006-03-20 05:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Amazing! It manages to be ugly in IE and Firefox but, with each one, it's a different ugly!

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Re:ICQ by pbranes · 2006-03-20 06:04 · Score: 4, Funny

How could you call this ugly?
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815053636/web.icq. com/
Re:"Ugly" can be very subjective. by Rorschach1 · 2006-03-20 06:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Plus, it's got lots of lesbians. That's a virtual guarantee of success for even the ugliest of websites!
Re:something seems 'fishy' allright... by slashdot.org · 2006-03-20 06:24 · Score: 4, Funny

:-) Yeah, the summary probably forgot to mention something:

reports of the site earning over $10,000/day in Adsense revenues on days the site hits Slashdot's frontpage.
Re:what's with the hate? by AngryNick · 2006-03-20 07:38 · Score: 2, Funny

So, what you're saying is that /. has a nice personality.
If it smells fishy... by Chapter80 · 2006-03-20 07:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Talk about a horrible name for a dating site! Would you want to look for a woman on a site that calls them "Plenty of Fish"? I'll pass on the tuna, thank you.
Mildly relevant comment related to bad naming: I drove by a new bar yesterday, called "Fox and Hounds English Pub and Grill". Who would want to go to a bar to meet women there? What horrible odds, one fox, lots of dogs!
Re:"Ugly" can be very subjective. by theskipper · 2006-03-20 08:58 · Score: 2, Funny

Note to self: Posts about lesbians on /. are +1 Insightful. Increase karma by posting multiple Ellen jokes in the future.