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The company, which sells used machinery for making tubes to clients worldwide, has seen its site <strong>utube.com<\/strong> knocked off line by millions of online searchers looking for video site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s killing us,&#8221; said Ralph Girkins, president and owner of the 22-year-old business. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Girkins says his site, which has been online since 1994, got 68 million hits in August. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yikes.  And I suspect that very fuew of those folks were looking for machine parts &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/06\/10\/12007.html\" target=\"_blank\">kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it seemed like such a great company name at the time &#8212; here&#8217;s a real casualty of the Internet. 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