what is the purpose of http://gppgle.com - a test of google or a hijacked google

i found in a recent access_love a referrer
http: // gppgle . com /
and had a look at that site
and all looks like google except that all links i saw so far always to to
gppgle . com - having all known graphics original google

any idea if that is a test or clone or hijacked Google site ??

 

looks like google to me.

 

Whois shows this:

 

Google owns a few weird domains as I found out when I helped determining the smallest working Google search code here:

http://www.blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-03-02-html#n12

 

It is a typo error redirect page. Since "P" is beside letter "O" they want to capture visitor miss typing their domain -- I guess

 

Or more likely stop others from taking that traffic and impersonating them...They own tons of similar domains in an effort to protect their name.

Just put in a url with any number of O's and its registered:

http://www.goooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/

 

YEs Google did this to avoid others from getting more than 10000 searches in a month that happen from typing mistake.
But it has not registered its name for any number of zeroes.
sexyhood