Monday, September 8, 2008

How Not to Act Like a Real University

This morning I was looking for the latest polling data on www.electoral-vote.com. But I accidentally typed www.electoral-college.com. When I did so, I was directed to the website of the University of Phoenix. I know it's common practice for some people and groups to buy up various url's and use them to direct unwitting web surfers to a specific (usually for-profit) site. But it never occurred to me that an institution claiming to be in the higher education business would consider it appropriate to do so.

I could add a comment here, but some things just speak for themselves.

1 comment:

redbarb said...

This makes me wonder what other url's they have taken as ads. I must also wonder how the porn industry missed that one.