domingo, 1 de abril de 2007

Google's April Fool 2007

It seems Google prefers April 1 (yes, fools's day) to annouce their plans and new services. Sometimes the announcement will be April fool's day joke or could be real serious one. Well, people really get confused nowadays whether Google's annoucement is really serious or just kidding.
Well, 2007 version of Google's serving is Google TiSP (BETA).


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Well, they have done some good stuffs to make it sound like real though.
Previous Fool's meals served by Google are:
Google MentalPlex (2000)
Google announced MentalPlex search technology that read user's mind to determine what the user wanted to search for. No need to actually type in the search query. What a wonderful tool, right?
Google's PigeonRank Technology (2002)
Have you ever wondered how exactly Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does?

Google Copernicus Center (2004)
Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (G.C.H.E.E.S.E.) is hiring for engineering positions, opening late in the spring of 2007. Its Google's lunar hosting and research center.

Google Gulp with Auto-Drink (2005)
According to Google, this beverage would optimize one's use of the Google search engine by increasing the drinker's intelligence! Wow!
Although Google Gulps is free, Google claimed the beverage could only be obtained by returning the cap of a Google Gulp bottle to a local grocery store!
Google Gulp was said to occasionally send data about one's use of the product via a wireless transmitter in the base of the Google Gulp bottle. It would be received at the GulpPlex!
You might want to read this blog for each and every prnaks the gaint has played : this is the link of the april fool pranks in the Unofficial news and tips about Google - Google Operating System.
Tags: 2007, april fool, google, fun, fool

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