Google closing in fast on DoubleClick deal

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Just when you thought that Google owned everything they are now going after DoubleClick.com. Businessweek.com reports that the FTC ruled in Google’s favor today 12/20/07 but they still need approval from EU’s anti-trust commission. Google is prepared to shell out $3.1 Billion to close this deal.

Now it seems that Google is starting to feel the heat from other advertising agencies in this Billion Dollar industry. Microsoft is really trying to get their head back in the game since they suck so bad and from what it looks like they are leaving software behind. Microsoft already has their Ads running on Major sites such as Digg.com, Facebook and Newscorp ” FoxNews”.

So Lets see what happens.

You can read more on this article at Businessweek

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Why not capitalize on spelling errors?

Just the other day while surfing Myspace out of all places I missed the ‘O’ and typed Myspace.cm by mistake. After doing that I saw Passion.com suddenly appear. I was confused for a minute and asked my self did I just type Passion.com instead of Myspace.com? Then it hit me that Passion.com purchased Myspace.cm for people like me who typed Myspace.cm instead.

Now this is a great idea and something that I really think is worth looking into. I did a little bit of Digging and found that .cm is a domain name for the African country of Cameroon. I Did a bit more digging after that and found that .CM domain names can be purchased at this website at the low price of only $799!.

The price might be a bit steep but just think of how much traffic you can grab from people who forgot to put the letter O in!. Of course most of the traffic might  be worth less then Stumble Upon traffic which is just come and go users. I mean if you are going to a travel site and ended up at a dating site why would you stay for?

One company who manged to grab Google.cm was Netflix. I can only imagine  how much traffic and customers Netflix gained from this but I am sure it is enough to pay for their funky commercials.

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