uTube.com Business Stalled by YouTube Purchase Hype

prostoalex writes "Google's acquisition of online video sharing site YouTube.com resulted in massive traffic headed to uTube.com, "the number one supplier of used Tube & Pipe equipment in the world!", according to the site. CNN Money reports: "The company, which sells used machinery for making tubes to clients worldwide, has seen its site utube.com knocked off line by millions of online searchers looking for video site. "It's killing us," said Ralph Girkins, president and owner of the 22-year-old business. "All my worldwide reps use our Web site. Customers all over the world use it to bring up photos of the machinery, descriptions and specifications there."""

Comments

Insult to injury

[cbcanb]

On top of that, now Slashdot links to it...

Re:Insult to injury

[ztransform]

If all slashdot readers can AVOID the temptation to visit the utube site I'm sure the company would much appreciate it!

Re:Insult to injury

[Ghost Hedgehog]

I think the company will be quite happy when all the readers at least buy something

Re:Insult to injury

[MMC Monster]

Umm... As a /. user, what exactly am I supposed to buy from utube.com? Extra pipes to get more internet?

Re:Insult to injury

[The-Bus]

Well, the prices are good, but when something weighs 15,000 lbs. it's the shipping that's a killer.

Re:Insult to injury

[Jimmy King]

You'll need one hell of a truck to ship those tubes.

Re:Insult to injury

[AlexDV]

Ahem, I think you mean tubes. And, yes, given that the Internet is a series of tubes, it stands to reason that buying more tubes would allow you to get your Internets faster. After all, it's not just a truck that you can dump stuff on. Good grief, everyone knows that, you loser.

Re:Insult to injury

[TubeSteak]

As a /. user, what exactly am I supposed to buy from utube.com?

2.5 inch PVC happens to be very close to the size of a tennis ball.

Not that anyone would ever special order 2.5" PVC for use in a pneumatic air cannon.

Re:Insult to injury

[Anonymous Coward]

OK, I give up, how do you use pneumatic air cannons for meat storage?

And as if that wasn't enough..

[arun_s]

they're now at /.
Poor guys.

Tubes

[Grr]

Well luckily he has enough tubes for all those internets!

Next aquisition

[kjart]

Obviously, utube.com will be Google's next aquisition - just look at how much traffic they get!

Re:Next aquisition

[aussie_a]

They don't, I checked. Several times.

Put up some advertising/adsense banners

[future assassin]

While you can. Might as well score some cash from the traffic.

Are they confused as Ted Stevens?

[NZheretic]

Let Jon Stewart Explain

It's 2006

[Centurix]

It's the year of the tube

Deja Vu

[tttonyyy]

And how kind of the slashdot editors to link to utube directly, just to rub the slashdot salt into the wounds.

(I can hear their servers weeping in the corner right now).

Re:Deja Vu

[Gulik]

(I can hear their servers weeping in the corner right now).

Oh, they're not weeping -- that sound you hear is the server's molten case dripping out of the rack.

Re:Oh, come off it.

[SetupWeasel]

Seconded. Why is that modded funny?

That's not nice!

[Bob Gelumph]

How could all those internet users knock the main company offline who was responsible for construction of the Internet?

Sheesh..

[l0cust]

Talk about common sense.

Pope: "We have decided to ban certain type of statues inside Vatican City depicting erotic postures. Come here Father Bryan and Sister Camilla, and take of your clothes please. Ok this is pose 1..Bryan put your hand there.. this is pose 2... oh and..(takes off his clothes).. eh..yeah that seems right.. this is pose 3.

A million slashdot editors gasp in shock and then erect similar statues all over the city to inform everyone what kind of statues are not allowed.

Probably just a misguided marketing ploy anyway

[tttonyyy]

Utube marketing guy: WTF? Our server is down!
Utube hosting provider: (putting down fire extinguisher) We want more money, you're burning bandwidth like the U.S. burns fossil fuels!
Utube marketing guy: Wait - I've just hear that Google bought YouTube and people are interested. Hey! This is an amazing marketing opportunity, I wonder how we can make use of it? (Pays hosting provider big wodge of cash)

(...ten minutes of googling later)

Utube marketing guy: My highly expensive and accurate research shows that tubes are incredibly important to our new potential customer base at slashdot.org, they talk about them a lot.
Utube CEO: OK, so how do we get their attention?
Utube marketing guy: Simple, we whine to CNN about how our business is going down the toilet thanks to google, then submit a story to slashdot - they love that stuff!

(...)

Slashdot editor: Hmm, I've been rejecting a lot of stories like this recently, and this one appears to be suitably poorly put together - perfect!
Slashdot editor: (skipping "Dupe Check"/"Spel Check"/"Grahma Check" buttons) *PUBLISH*
Slashdot readers: Oooh, how cruel to link to that site! (Follows link to see if servers really are down or not).
Server room: (indifferent rattle of hard disks)
Utube hosting provider: (puffing on expensive cigar) Suckers! Time to order my new Humvee.

Re:Solution

[aussie_a]

I don't drool on my shirt all day either.

You would though if you owned a shirt.

Re:Spelling is HARD

[Atario]

Perhaps we have millions of kids out there who genuinely believe that you is spelled u.

Could be worse -- we could be reading a story right now about how some site called uT00b.com is getting swamped.

In other news...

[Junior J. Junior III]

NotATruck.com has also experienced a major spike in traffic, due to confused congressmen.

Re:Spelling is HARD

[complete loony]

Crap, you just took out my server.