Google Propping Up Typosquatting Biz?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday April 30, 2006 @07:20AM from the i-love-shopping-at-amezon.com dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is making oodles of cash placing ads on a vast sea of otherwise vacant Web sites that do little more than capitalize on misspelled domain name names, according to a story in today's Washington Post. From the story: 'Google Inc., which runs the largest ad network on the Internet, is making millions of dollars a year by filling otherwise unused Web sites with ads. In many instances, these ad-filled pages appear when users mistype an Internet address, such as BistBuy.com. This new form of advertising is turning into a booming business that some say is cluttering the Internet and could be violating trademark rules.'"

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FP by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-30 07:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

w00t! Did i get it??!?
Had to be said.... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-30 07:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

www.fistcomment.com ;)
Do Ma by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-30 07:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I want to foook your mother upside down.
idiot by ccordero · 2006-04-30 08:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

what kind of idiot types BistBuy.com