12-12-2003, 11:33 PM
It seems to just link to normal yahoo, or am I missing something.
It's pretty common practice for large websites to register common misspellings of their name and point them straight at their real site - $30 per year will probably pay for itself in customers that would otherwise have been missed. To quote PC PRO magazine:
"Just talk to the people in your mailroom, they see most of the common misspellings every day"
(ok, that's not an exact quote, but it's near enough).
Of course, other unscrupulous people do a similar thing to leach the misspellings when people try to go elsewhere. You want to run an online bank? try registering a common misspelling of a big banking website and watch the customers roll in.
Every mistyped
batle.net
it's a popup spamming search engine. No I DO NOT want to change my blinkin' homepage, nor do I want a free email address, thankyou.
Don't tell me, I missed something, and I now look like the world's greatest idiot for typing all that out...
-Bob
It's pretty common practice for large websites to register common misspellings of their name and point them straight at their real site - $30 per year will probably pay for itself in customers that would otherwise have been missed. To quote PC PRO magazine:
"Just talk to the people in your mailroom, they see most of the common misspellings every day"
(ok, that's not an exact quote, but it's near enough).
Of course, other unscrupulous people do a similar thing to leach the misspellings when people try to go elsewhere. You want to run an online bank? try registering a common misspelling of a big banking website and watch the customers roll in.
Every mistyped
batle.net
it's a popup spamming search engine. No I DO NOT want to change my blinkin' homepage, nor do I want a free email address, thankyou.
Don't tell me, I missed something, and I now look like the world's greatest idiot for typing all that out...
-Bob