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uTube.com makes $1000 a day from a typo
Remember uTube? Of course you do. Who could forget about the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation.OK, that was trick question. But the corporation's website happens to be similar enough to a popular video sharing site that nearly 2 million people each month mistype YouTube.com and wind up visiting uTube. You'd think that'd be a good thing, but not if it means crashed servers and high bandwidth costs. So uTube filed a lawsuit after Google (with its deep pockets) purchased YouTube last year.
Now Red Herring reports that uTube is actually making money off of user typos. A lot of money.
The corporation has installed a ring tone search engine that lets users find and download cellphone ring tones. The site is now bringing in almost $1000 every day. But uTube hasn't dropped its suit against YouTube. The corporation is still seeking damages and a permanent injunction against use of YouTube.com. Cause, you know, people who don't even know how to spell YouTube will definitely stop visiting your site immediately after YouTube changes to a new URL.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Liam said 9:43AM on 5-17-2007
you have to be an idiot to file lawsuits like these!
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Ron said 2:08PM on 5-17-2007
Now, if Microsoft or Yahoo really wanted to go after Google, they could buy/rent the UTube site and start up a video site there, but that would be just evil...
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lev polvoi said 6:27PM on 5-18-2007
LOL 2 million people misspell youtube every month. There are 2 million people on the web who are clueless :#
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davydany said 9:14PM on 5-19-2007
btw...whats the url to this site again? :)
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