Wrong Site Type, Google wins USD 500 million per year?
What happens if the user of the internet is to type the name of Google in the Internet ? Gogole example. Of course users Internet will lead to other sites rather than to the search engine in question.
The same thing happens on other sites, especially popular. For example, instead Panodra Pandora and more.
However, did you know that this is actually profitable Google? Reportedly, due to typing errors like these, Google's potential to get a profit of U.S. $ 500 million per year!
This is because the action called 'typosquatting' on the internet. This action is a form of cybersquatting (astride a domain name that has not purchased the popular people) for a domain name misspelled.
On the site of a typo it is usually only show ads only. Well, the ad was supposedly derived mostly from Google, which means Google's service also get a share.
This problem is investigated by Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman from Harvard University. They said Google has been supplying about 60% of ads on sites of existing kecohan.
Not surprisingly, advanced researchers, if Google's making a lot of money from here. It is estimated that the amount could reach $ 500 million per year (about USD 4.7 trillion).
Google's own income in the year 2009 is known to reach U.S. $ 23 billion (approximately Rp 214 trillion). Of that amount, as much as 97% of them come from advertising.
Just for the record, the use of the name 'Gogole' in this paper are for mere illustrative purposes. Name domain Gogole.com itself appears to have 'rescued' by Google.
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