The Underground Web Economy
I tried to visit TechCrunch.com this morning and instead ended up here:
As much as we focus on the Web economy that operates in the sunshine, e.g. advertising on TechCrunch, there’s an entire economy that operates “underground,” e.g. pay-per-click ads on domain typo sites.
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Techrunch.com**
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Techcunch.com**
I’m sure TechCrunch isn’t missing much traffic from sites like these, since most TechCrunch readers are probably savvy enough to know that they have ended up on a domain typo site. But it reminds you that a lot of the money being made on the Web is through exploitation of human error, human foibles, human confusion, and human ignorance.
Viva la Web.