An arbitrator awarded Google rights to several website addresses that are based on typical typographical errors that occur when typing the search engine's name in a web browser, reports AP.

The sites - googkle.com, ghoogle.com and gooigle.com - were being used to install computer viruses and other malicious software on visitors' computers.

The National Arbitration Forum found for Google, which had lodged a complaint alleging that Sergey Gridasov of St. Petersburg, Russia, had engaged in "typosquatting" by operating the sites as part of a plot to infect computers with malware. Because Gridasov didn't respond to the complaint, the arbitrator was free to give credence to all reasonable allegations.