9.04.2006

Misspellr

I was going to add this as an update onto the previous post but after 5 minutes of playing around with it decided it was cool enough to merit its own post. misspellr.com is an auction search engine that allows you to search for misspellings of search terms on ebay, craigslist, and yahoo auctions. Why? In short, because if somebody misspells their item, it won't show up under a normal search for that item. And if it's not showing up on most searches, it's likely to sell for less than similar items that are spelled right and getting their proper publicity. I tried "Stavesacre" and "Patagonia" as ebay searches and found interesting misspelled listings on both searches. Probably rates fairly low on the usefulness scale, but a great idea nonetheless.

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