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Google gives you free internet

According to a newly published website and a press release, the Californian giant Google is now offering free broadband internet. How do they achieve this? Through the toilet in your house! The thorough reader might notice the date of the press release though ;o)

Google Front Page

This entry was posted by Thomas Watson Steen on Sunday, April 1st, 2007 at 18:56 (GMT-1) and is filed under Humor, Search Engines. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Google gives you free internet”

  1. Tobias Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 19:55 (GMT-1)

    Whoa — they have been busy. They are also offering your gigabytes of e-mails sent to you on paper, if you are not comfortable with this whole interweb-thing. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html

  2. Tobias Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 19:58 (GMT-1)

    And, some of the testimonials are just great:

    “Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldn’t go.”

  3. Jesper Rønn-Jensen Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 20:20 (GMT-1)

    Exactly 5 years ago from this day, Google published details on their secret “PigeonRank” algorithm, definitely worth a read:

    By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings.

    diagramWhen a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at blazing speeds. When a relevant result is observed by one of the pigeons in the cluster, it strikes a rubber-coated steel bar with its beak, which assigns the page a PigeonRank value of one. For each peck, the PigeonRank increases. Those pages receiving the most pecks, are returned at the top of the user’s results page with the other results displayed in pecking order

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    April 2nd, 2007 at 02:36 (GMT-1)

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