April 1 on Google

Well if you didn't have the chance to use Google today, you missed it. (not a joke) I will tell you what you missed but you should "google" them and read them yourself. (Hopefully they will still be posted on the web somewhere for a while - good jokes should be preserved in their entirety :-)

First a screen shot of the Google home page. Notice the "New! Get FREE breakthrough broadband with Google TiSP (BETA)"? It stands for "Toilet Internet Service Provider". The slogan for this "breakthrough"? "Want WiFi around? Just flush it down."

Once on their welcome page you can click the "Get Started with Google TiSP" button and it will take you to an installation page with some hilarious graphics.

About 2/3 of the way down on the "install" page is a link for "professional installation service" that takes you to an error page. The error page basically explains that this page wasn't finished because the joke got thrown together pretty quickly. The up side is that this page links to other April Fool's Day Google hoaxes.

There is "Google Romance". On the "tour" (no, I'm NOT looking - I knew it was a joke) you will find such jewels as "User B inadvertently reveals that he's kind of full of himself. Note: User A's telepsychic predicted this."

Google gulp "with Auto-Drink"

From the FAQ page "...you should be aware that by popping the seal on the twist-off Gulp cap, you send a wireless signal to Google's servers indicating your irrevocable acceptance of the Google Gulp Terms and Conditions, which do include the possibility, however remote, of hideous genetic mutation resulting from your consumption of this product. We're pretty sure you won't die, though."

As a quick aside, this makes me think of the scary factoid that only an estimated 2% of people actually READ End User License Agreements...

Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (G.C.H.E.E.S.E.) - complete with "Googlunaplex"

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A re-visit of a page explaining Google's lightning fast search results - Pigeon Rank using, yes, real pigeons. (Originally put out April 1, 2002)

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And the opportunity to search using the revolutionary "MentalPlex" (Originally from April 1, 2000)

Instructions:
Remove hat and glasses.
Peer into MentalPlex circle. DO NOT MOVE YOUR HEAD.
Project mental image of what you want to find.
Click or visualize clicking within the MentalPlex circle

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And last of all, I'm not sure if it was a glitch or an April Fool's joke by Blogger, I ran into a little snag when I uploaded these last four images (Google Gulp, Googlunaplex logo, Pigeon Rank and MentalPlex). Blogger just kept uploading and uploading all four images (22 times) before I figured out what was going on and could get it to stop.

ha. ha. ha.