Google Making Nearly $500m From Typosquatting

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19 February, 2010

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Google is not as good as it has led us to believe of the past few years. Buzz is the latest incident of Google deviation from its "don't be evil" motto. There's also the major issue of spammy websites like Squidoo or Mahalo which tend to generate a lot of money.

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