According to the company, this beverage would optimize one's use of the Google search engine by increasing the drinker's intelligence. Google Gulp, a fictitious drink, was announced by Google in 2005.
In reality, it was a double fake, in that the announced product was serious. The announcement of Gmail was written in an unserious jokey language normally seen in April Fools' jokes, tricking many into thinking that it was an April Fools' joke.
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Google also announced Gmail on April 1, with an unprecedented and unbelievable free 1 GB space, compared to e.g. Google Job Opportunities: Google Copernicus Center is hiring.Copernicus is the name of a new operating system they claimed to have created for working at the research center. įictitious job opportunities for a research center on the moon. The article makes many humorous references and puns based on computer terminology and how Google PageRank really works, (for example, a chart showing the pigeons' consumption of linseed and flax, represented as the "lin/ax kernel," a pun on the Linux kernel).
Google touts the benefits of this cost-effective and efficient means of ranking pages and reassures readers that there is no animal cruelty involved in the process. Google reveals the technology behind its PageRank Systems-PigeonRank.Pi. Please try again.Īn additional error message was included which converted all navigation text to German, but was scrapped after user complaints.
Error 05: Brainwaves received in analog.Silence voices in your head and try again. Error 666: Multiple transmitters detected.Error 005: KUT Weak or no signal detected.Several humorous error messages were then displayed on the search results page, all listed below: Google's first April Fools' Day hoax, the MentalPlex hoax, invited users to project a mental image of what they wanted to find while staring at an animated GIF.
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