youtube’s success, utube’s stress!

By Garima Dhiman • October 13, 2006

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Looks like Youtube’s success has led to a lot of stress for an Ohio based company that specialises in selling used machinery for making tubes.

Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp. near Toledo, Ohio, use their Web site - utube.com for their customers all over the world to bring up photos of the machinery, descriptions and specifications. However, ever since Youtube news of its potential sell-out to google for $ 1.65 billion hit the internet, youtube surfers have been crippling the tube’s machinery site, making the daily traffic to the site tripling the previous traffic numbers.

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"its killing us" says Ralph Girkins, president and owner of the 22-year-old business, as clients who try to look them up, get a streaming video site(if one google’s on utube, Youtube.com is the first result followed by Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp.)

Well, keeping a name close to a popular site’s name might work well for most sites in generating additional hits, however the tube machinery company seems to be at a great loss here for running a site which bears resemblance to the name of the 10th most popular site on Alexa. Their site, meant only for selective customers and clients gets bogged down by a large chunk out of the Youtube’s 20 million visitors each month!