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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?
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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Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
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.
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:Talk about Ugly.. by moochfish · 2006-03-20 06:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Slashdot beat it with an ugly stick.
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!