What’s in a name?
October 25, 2006 Posted by Bryan in : Humor, News , trackback,
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Lots of website traffic apparently.
This is pretty funny. In the wake of the news regarding Google’s purchase of YouTube earlier this month, the pipe manufacturing website Utube.com saw a HUGE increase in traffic. The graph below shows the site’s page view statistics from Alexa.com. Note the peak around mid-October…
I can just hear all those not-so-internet-savvy people going “I don’t see what the big deal is all about…”
And then I’m sure there were a few people thinking “What would Google need that much pipe for?”, which begs the question, “What *could* Google need that much pipe for?”
Server cooling? An underwater circus? Some nefarious plan to drain the oceans and control the worlds water supply?
Post your theories in the comments section.
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I’m just happy utube.com is a different type of industry then youtube.com! If youtube.com came out first utube would be some cheesy, awful video knock off site. Like my dad always calls Best Buy, Best Buys. Why he pluralizes it, I have no idea. But of course there is a bestbuys.com that conveniently sells the same kinda stuff.
well the internet IS a series of tubes, right… which conveniently must be fashioned out of pipe, yes? Make the tubes bigger, no more internets lost in transmission. Is Ted Stevens passe yet? I can never tell.