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Google's 2005 April Fool's Joke

Source Title:
Google's April Fools Joke
Source Url:
http://www.dotcomicide.com/2005/03/googles-april-fools-joke-2005.html
Story Text:
No, the joke wasn't the update, nor the patent release... Google Gulp, the drink that tracks your whereabouts.
Haha, Google.
Give me my serps back, I promise to register all my .us spam domains for 10 years from now on.... :P

- Y! MyWeb

 

lol

Cre8asiteforums joke had me suckered for half a page, but i've never been into usability anyway ;) http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forsale.html

By PaulH at Apr 1 2005 - 05:38

Good to see..

..these kinds of things, certainly shows the brighter side of humanity. A colleague reads The Sun (tabloid uk paper) and spent a while complaining of the cheek of gypsies and stuff.."No respect for the monarchy even.." he blathered..

By robwatts at Apr 1 2005 - 08:48

Very funny indeed although I am curious

whether they are joking or not when they answer the questions about the Auto-Drink feature.

link: Google Gulp with Auto Drink

4. What if I don't want to use Auto-Drink™?

No problem – simply turn off Auto-Drink™ on your Google Gulp preferences page.

5. Well, shouldn't Auto-Drink™ be default-off?

You mean we should cripple a perfectly useful feature just because of a little bad PR?

6. Yes.

Okay.

By chinaman at Apr 1 2005 - 11:06

 

Quote:
Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlex™, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear. See our Privacy Policy.

Many a true word said in jest! :P

By JasonD at Apr 1 2005 - 12:03

I wonder if "Eric Schmidt" quoted by Jason..

..is a relation of our own Claus Schmidt

By cornwall at Apr 1 2005 - 12:29

*lol* no he's not

- at least afaik. It's a quite common name (like Smith) and a quite common spelling of it in German speaking countries (i'm not German though)... although down the line it could be we had the same ape ancestor somewhere in Africa. Perhaps even a Googlerilla?

By claus at Apr 1 2005 - 13:10

Also

April fools search http://www.googleaprilfools.com/

By chrisgarrett at Apr 1 2005 - 13:11

had to happen

meanwhile, on ebay....

By Gurtie at Apr 1 2005 - 16:26