Study: URL typos earn Google $497 million per year

Google could make $ 497 million per year by imitating registered owner of the website addresses those typographical errors in the existing locations, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard University, Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman estimates that Google could be millions of the practice as “Typo squatting make known, because the graphical display of network – from which it receives a portion of the profits – typo’s run the site. If an address is often misspelled page – for example, zddnet.com instead of yours truly – the tactic could pay plenty.