May 05, 2004
Googel.com
I just went to search Google, and mis-typed the URL as "Googlee.com". It still went to Google -- because as it turns out, the company has registered that domain and pointed it to their main page, just in case all us idiots out here in the aether can't spell. (Check it out for yourself: Click the link in that last sentence, see where you wind up, then look up in the "address" bar of your browser to see what the precise spelling of the URL is.)
I poked around for a while on some WHOIS databases and discovered that Google has also registered several other misspellings, such as "Gogle.com" and "Googel.com".
Interestingly, they weren't able to get the phonetic misspelling -- "Googul.com" -- which, I suspect, is typed in pretty damn frequently by the barely-literate and utterly-innumerate products of the US's fine, fine public high-school systems. It looks like some domain-name camper called "Uk2.net" has snapped up Googul.com, and is probably asking $100 million for it. Don't hold your breath, suckers.
Can anyone out there find any other misspellings of Google that Google itself has registered?
Posted by Clive Thompson at May 05, 2004 01:05 AM
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http://gogole.com
it's much easier to type compared to google.com ;)
Shame on you EDAC, I just tried gogole and it already points to google correctly. How much did you get, huh?
Margaret Wente also has an amusing piece this week about Google going public; in it she mentions that the founders originally wanted to call it googol.com, but that was already registered, as you can see here.
Well there is always the correct spelling of the word...
googol.com was taken when they started the project and still is.
Excellent! These are all great links.
That's really hilarious that the guy who runs the correctly-spelled "googol" site is just some science geek. I wonder if anyone from Google has ever offered him money to buy the domain.
www.gugul.com - SIte for an organic supplement
for lowering cholesterol, LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein)
www.kookle.com - A web design company
www.googgle.com - A porn site
yeah, gooogle.com works, but it does not work with 4 o's or more.
Oh, right on! That hedgewood stuff is interesting. And I hadn't thought to simply try spelling Google with more o's -- which would be, of course, a very common spelling error.
uk2.net are nice people who do cheap hosting for uk people, cheap dialup and lots and lots of free on line gaming servers, so don't slag them off for being clever. Google is now just another nasty bunch of capitalists now anyway, so no more sympathy to them as of the date they went public. (trawling through your email in order to spam you? no thanks)
who is discovered the googel .coman
try http://www.asian4you.us/
Don't worry it's not a porn site.
Google has also registered www.googil.com !!
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