Tag: TYPO

Google makes about $500 million a year in advertising revenue from deceptive Web sites that target typos, according to New Scientist. It's the result of a trend called "typosquatting," a practice wherein people register domain names that are mere letters away from those of popular sites (e.g., 'Switcjed.com' instead of 'Switched.com'). When somebody hits the wrong key and unintentionally visits ...

Finder's keepers is a refrain echoed on playgrounds, but a Dutch woman might soon use it as her defense in the courtroom. According to DutchNews, a man from Wageningen, The Netherlands made a costly error while trying to transfer funds from his bank account to his son's. With one wrong keystroke, the man sent about $63,500 to a woman's account in Almelo. While most sane folks would simply return ...

It has happened again. Another media outlet has mixed up the name of the President of the United States with that of the most disliked man on planet Earth. The headline of yesterday's Yahoo! article entitled "Science Takes on Terror Hunt" reads, "A geographer uses innovative analysis to narrow Obama Bin Laden's location to three sites." Oops. This has happened before, and it will almost surely ...

You'd think that fixing a typo would be an easy thing in these days easily-editable digital content. But surprisingly, this is not always the case. And sometimes, it's just too late to do anything about the consequences that result from a particularly bad mistake. In case you don't believe us, check out the list of the worst typos ever, compiled by Typo Buddy, a site dedicated to saving you ...