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MetaMan

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Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« on: March 31, 2007, 11:27:31 PM »
I think I just found the April Fool's joke this year!  Read about it here and here.

I have to say, this is a great idea!  It's the best thing since Zip Disks! ;)
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2007, 11:36:51 PM »
They put some thought into that one.. funny :)
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2007, 12:24:03 AM »
Thanks MetaMan! Just got done writing up an article about it. It was actually pretty clever if you read through it all including the user testimonials.
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2007, 12:42:20 AM »
I think Gmail Paper is not a bad idea. But then again, in this era of printers we don't really need such a service.
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2007, 02:47:07 AM »
Thats the best one yet. Although, the one with the pidgeon rank was funny
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2007, 08:56:58 AM »
Quote from: pdedecker on April 01, 2007, 12:42:20 AM
I think Gmail Paper is not a bad idea. But then again, in this era of printers we don't really need such a service.
True but I don't have a printer...but then again I don't have a Gmail account either.
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2007, 09:03:22 AM »
I love the part where they said they would place ads on the back of the sheets. ;D
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2007, 12:40:32 AM »
It just shows that everything Google does has something to do with advertising in some way or another. I heard that they use Analytics data to build user profiles so that they can serve you personalized ads based on what Google Analytics-enabled sites you've visited. In the end, they're as evil as Yahoo with their web beacons...
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2007, 10:58:38 PM »
I hadn't heard about that with Google, but they are surely going to make sure they benefit somehow from it otherwise why offer a service that has to take a lot of resources to run?
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2007, 02:45:25 AM »
Essentially, they're doing evil things with web beacons and before you know it they'll have a detailled profile about you and what kind of websites you visit. Don't forget that you can disable this tracking mechanism by adding the filter http://www.google-analytics.com/* to Adblock. Although I don't like the idea of Google tracking me, I'm not going to block Analytics because I don't want to mess up people's site stats.
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2007, 06:34:12 AM »
Did you guys notice this?

http://www.google.com/tisp/

;D
« Last Edit: April 03, 2007, 06:40:59 AM by javasharp »
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2007, 12:21:06 AM »
Yes, I think Ryan wrote about it a few days ago.
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Re: Google's April Fool's Joke of the Year 2007
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2007, 02:28:10 PM »
Yeah, that was definitely hilarious! I wonder how many Googlers it takes to come up with these things.
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