uTube.com Business Stalled by YouTube Purchase Hype 202
prostoalex writes "Google's acquisition of online video sharing site YouTube.com resulted in massive traffic headed to uTube.com, "the number one supplier of used Tube & Pipe equipment in the world!", according to the site. CNN Money reports: "The company, which sells used machinery for making tubes to clients worldwide, has seen its site utube.com knocked off line by millions of online searchers looking for video site. "It's killing us," said Ralph Girkins, president and owner of the 22-year-old business. "All my worldwide reps use our Web site. Customers all over the world use it to bring up photos of the machinery, descriptions and specifications there."""
Insult to injury (Score:5, Funny)
And as if that wasn't enough.. (Score:5, Funny)
Poor guys.
Tubes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Insult to injury (Score:5, Funny)
Next aquisition (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously, utube.com will be Google's next aquisition - just look at how much traffic they get!
Re:Insult to injury (Score:4, Funny)
Put up some advertising/adsense banners (Score:5, Funny)
Are they confused as Ted Stevens? (Score:3, Funny)
It's 2006 (Score:2, Funny)
Deja Vu (Score:5, Funny)
(I can hear their servers weeping in the corner right now).
Re:Oh, come off it. (Score:3, Funny)
That's not nice! (Score:4, Funny)
Sheesh.. (Score:2, Funny)
Pope: "We have decided to ban certain type of statues inside Vatican City depicting erotic postures. Come here Father Bryan and Sister Camilla, and take of your clothes please. Ok this is pose 1..Bryan put your hand there.. this is pose 2... oh and..(takes off his clothes).. eh..yeah that seems right.. this is pose 3.
A million slashdot editors gasp in shock and then erect similar statues all over the city to inform everyone what kind of statues are not allowed.
Probably just a misguided marketing ploy anyway (Score:5, Funny)
Utube hosting provider: (putting down fire extinguisher) We want more money, you're burning bandwidth like the U.S. burns fossil fuels!
Utube marketing guy: Wait - I've just hear that Google bought YouTube and people are interested. Hey! This is an amazing marketing opportunity, I wonder how we can make use of it? (Pays hosting provider big wodge of cash)
(...ten minutes of googling later)
Utube marketing guy: My highly expensive and accurate research shows that tubes are incredibly important to our new potential customer base at slashdot.org, they talk about them a lot.
Utube CEO: OK, so how do we get their attention?
Utube marketing guy: Simple, we whine to CNN about how our business is going down the toilet thanks to google, then submit a story to slashdot - they love that stuff!
(...)
Slashdot editor: Hmm, I've been rejecting a lot of stories like this recently, and this one appears to be suitably poorly put together - perfect!
Slashdot editor: (skipping "Dupe Check"/"Spel Check"/"Grahma Check" buttons) *PUBLISH*
Slashdot readers: Oooh, how cruel to link to that site! (Follows link to see if servers really are down or not).
Server room: (indifferent rattle of hard disks)
Utube hosting provider: (puffing on expensive cigar) Suckers! Time to order my new Humvee.
Re:Next aquisition (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Solution (Score:3, Funny)
You would though if you owned a shirt.
Re:Insult to injury (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spelling is HARD (Score:3, Funny)
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In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Deja Vu (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, they're not weeping -- that sound you hear is the server's molten case dripping out of the rack.
Re:Spelling is HARD (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Insult to injury (Score:5, Funny)
2.5 inch PVC happens to be very close to the size of a tennis ball.
Not that anyone would ever special order 2.5" PVC for use in a pneumatic air cannon.
Re:Insult to injury (Score:3, Funny)