Google’s April Fools Day Joke 2006

For April Fools Day 2006, Google has revealed a new site: Google Romance, whose tagline is "Pin all your romantic hopes on Google." So what’s Google Romance all about? According to the site: "When you think about it, love is just another search problem. And we’ve thought about it. A lot. Google Romanceâ„¢ is our solution. Google Romance is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Searchâ„¢, get back search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we’ll send you both on a Contextual DateTM, which we’ll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you’re looking for." In a hilarious tongue-in-cheek comment on the Google naysayers of late who claim all Google does releases too much just to see what will stick, Google Romance notes: those who generally favor the “throw enough stuff at the wall” approach to online dating might find it useful to employ our Batch Profile Uploading option.

Another Google prank involves Google Earth, where they’ve added some aliens to Area 51 and a dog on the White House lawn.

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