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(Unverified)Oct 16th 2006 11:35AM

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Oh, c'mon, I expect more than this from Download Squad. This has to be your shoddiest post of all time. If you had read ANY of the articles about this you would have known that the problem isn't that people can't find utube.com, but that people can't find youtube.com!

Despite YouTube's popularity, remember that most people over 30 probably aren't too familiar with it. So they hear on NPR or from a co-worker that "Google bought YouTube" and, since they don't know how to spell "YouTube," they take the first reasonable shot: utube. (iPod, uTube -- makes sense, right?)

Utube.com's problem isn't that their customers don't know the site or can't find it, as you mistakenly assume. Utube.com's problem is that their site is being overwhelmed with useless traffic from NON-utube.com customers who are heading there by mistake because they don't know how to spell "YouTube." Utube.com's loyal customers can't even reach the site because the misspellers have sucked up all the bandwidth.

Makes me wonder how many other DS articles consist of the same kind of poor research as this one . . .

A correction is warranted, I think.

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