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Microsoft "SiteFinder" Quietly Raking It In

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-your-typos-are-belong-to-us dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with the news, which isn't particularly new, that Microsoft's Internet Explorer sends typo domain names to a page of pay-per-click ads. In this endeavor Microsoft joins Charter and Earthlink in profiting from the dubious practice that Verisign pioneered but failed to make stick. The article is on a site whose audience is, among others, those who attempt to profit by typo-squatting, and its tone is just a bit petulant because individuals cannot hope to profit in this game on the scale Microsoft effortlessly achieves.

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  1. Absolute fud - Google does the same... by Aphrika · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Try typing Lexus-Financial.com into Google...

    Apart from getting the two results that link back to this specific story, at the bottom, on big letters, you get Did you mean to search for: Lexus-Financial.com

    This is just straight MS bashing for no reason - chances are that if you typo'd, you'd probably be looking for the suggested alternate. If you typed the same stuff into Google and spelt it correctly, chances are your first link would be a sponsored one at the top.

    I mean, if a search engine helps you fidn what your looking for, it's doing its job. if it makes money while it's doing it, so what?