And it seemed like such a great company name at the time — here’s a real casualty of the Internet.
One place where YouTube’s success isn’t being celebrated is in the offices of Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp. near Toledo, Ohio. 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.”
Girkins says his site, which has been online since 1994, got 68 million hits in August.
Yikes. And I suspect that very fuew of those folks were looking for machine parts …
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Umm… OOPS!! I was one of those 68 million. 🙁
It’s kinda like Wal-mart moving in next to your specialty machine parts store — they’re not really a competitor, but it’s really a pain when people park in your lot.