Bostonist hates typos. Poorly constructed sentences bother us, too. Errors happen, though. We won't be going around the country with a red pen to correct typos in public places like Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, two Dartmouth grads, who literally went from coast-to-coast correcting errors. Their book called "The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time" ($23.99) tells their obsessive tale. They found 437 typos. They corrected 236 of them. Aside from defacing a Grand Canyon sign that was a hand-painted artifact, they picked a bunch of nits. [Globe]
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A small part of Google's $23 billion in revenue comes from typos, Harvard researchers have found. Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Business School, respectively, studied the most popular .com sites, finding that each had about 280 registered typo domains associated with it, a "typo domain" being a domain that could feasibly be created from attempting to type the actual domain name (blogpot.com is one of our favorite examples). The researchers looked at the advertising practices on these sites, and extrapolated from average advertising revenue for Google pay-per-click (PPC) ads to estimate the amount of revenue that Google gets from ads on these "typosquatting" sites.
It's a case of what Dave Chappelle would call "keeping it real gone wrong." In their zeal to rid the world of typos, a pair of asshats defaced a 60-year-old sign painted by architect Mary Colter.
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