How Google Sometimes Profits From Your Typos

Is Google cluttering the Internet and possibly violating trademark rules? Maybe. Are they making piles of money? Yes. Google is continuing to find ways to make loads of cash by beating other companies to an idea that isn’t necessarily difficult. Google is alledgedly supporting domain squatters by supporting pay-per-click portals on mispellings of popular domains.– which can sometimes be reached by typing in a wrong URL while searching for a different site. The Washington Post found 100 random misspellings of “http://www.earthlink.net” after a brief test.

How that URL can be typed potentially 100 wrong ways is a mystery to me, but it’s an interesting test. Regardless of how Google is doing things, it’s hard to blame them for using unused space for ads. They note that they believe they are doing nothing wrong, so it looks like it will stay. Check out the posting at DailyTech.