[Offtopic] Google & April Fool's Day

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hi all,

Google loves April Fool's Day .. this year .. it's Google 'Romance' ..

 <http://www.google.com/romance>


(Quote) "Pin All Your Romantic Hopes on Google. When you think about it, 
love is just another search problem. And we’ve thought about it. A lot. 
Google Romance™ is our solution. Google Romance is a place where you can 
post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Search™, 
get back search results that could, in theory, include the love of your 
life. 

With Google Romance, you can: Upload your profile – tell the world who 
you are, or, more to the point, who you’d like to think you are, or, even 
more to the point, who you want others to think you are. Search for love 
in all (or at least a statistically significant majority of) the right 
places with Soulmate Search, our eerily effective psychographic 
matchmaking software .."

And, when you enter any search term into Google Romance, you end up with:

Romance Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server. This means that you 
either:

Fell for our April Fool’s joke, in which case ha ha, wasn't that amusing 
and harmless and mostly in good taste and not all psychologically 
damaging under various and sundry aspects of contemporary tort law, 
please don't sue us; or

Are genuinely enjoying, or least momentarily tolerating, our April Fool’s 
joke and wanted to surf your way into its every last nook and cranny, in 
which case

..ha ha, wasn't that amusing and harmless and mostly in good taste and 
not all psychologically damaging under various and sundry aspects of 
contemporary tort law, please don't sue us; and/or

you might want to take a trip down our April Fool’s memory lane, here:

 <http://www.google.com/googlegulp>

or here:

 <http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html>

or here:

 <http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html>

or here. Enjoy.

 <http://www.google.com/mentalplex>

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Cheers,
Stephen