Google Makes $500M a Year On Typos

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on an analysis by Harvard researchers that suggests Google rakes in half a billion dollars annually from advertising that appears on typosquatting domains. They estimate that 60 per cent of typosquatting pages use Google ads, but the advertising giant declined to discuss whether it should be working with such pages."

If only...

[srussia]

Slashdot got a nickel for every typo...

Frist

[Bastard of Subhumani]

They won't maek a penny out of me!

Typosquatting is Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

Typosquatting is evil but, $500 million per year is delicious. How can we increase revenues? Ooh, let's run our own global DNS system do our own typo squatting and cut out the middle man!

Genious! Eric, peel me a grape.

Re:If only...

[webreaper]

You mean there are women here? :-o

Re:If only...

[dubbreak]

And a dollar for each hitler reference.