According to a new report, internet giant Google could be making as much as $500 Million a year thanks to ad revenue coming from websites found thanks to typos by users. The claim centers on a controversial scheme known as "typosquatting", the practice of registering a misspelled variant of a popular web domain. For example, if someone were looking for addictinggames.com, but they typed it as addictingames.com (only one G), then another person could register the misspelled website and over time begin to make money by putting google ads on the false site. It is not uncommon for the average internet user to mistype website addresses, so some have began to take advantage of this, by registering as many misspelled websites as they can. Be sure to check your spelling ladies and gentlemen.
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