I just had to laugh when I read over at Duncan Riley’s blog about this apparent pulling the wool over the eyes of TechCrunch and LifeHacker by a site call Popuri. It turns out that both these news sites got taken in by a guy with a script you can by for $20.00 that displays your site’s rankings via a variety of web sources.

Granted neither TechCrunch nor LifeHacker said anywhere that this was a business but in the case of TechCrunch one would think that being the supposed voice of Web 2.0 startups a little checking would have been in order.

Duncan got a pretty good laugh out of it as well calling it a dupe of two pro’s

Here’s the thing, there is NOTHING special about Popuri at all, accept that they’ve given the site a trendy sounding Web 2.0 URL and a lite lick of Web 2.0 paint, the script that runs the site isn’t unique, indeed I regularly see sites running the same/ similar script come up for sale at DigitalPoint for $20, sometimes even less. Juan Xavier Larea of Florida, who ever you are, 100 pts for pure genius because you’ve duped Michael Arrington + LifeHacker, and that’s some pretty serious people to dupe.

Guess it must have been a slow news day in Web 2.0 land

Conversation Tags: Duncan Riley, TechCrunch, LifeHacker, Web 2.0