10 Google Products/Services/Jokes You Might Not Knew Existed...

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Hi everyone

Yesterday I was on a Google "history" page and read about all Google's achievements over the last 10-14 years.

Here are some of their services/products that I read about, which I never heard of before.
You might find this interesting:

1. Google Mentalplex
An april fools joke from Google back in the day. Made people believe they had to stare into a hypnogram in order to do a Google search.
http://www.google.com/mentalplex/

2. Google Grants
A adwords program for non-profit organization. Do you have a non-profit organization? Google will give you free adwords advertising!
http://www.google.com/grants/

3. Google Gulp
A very weird april fools joke from Google. At the bottom of the page it reads:
"Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlexâ„¢, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. "
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/

4. Google Romance Beta
Maybe another weird joke from Google. It says on the page: "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."
http://www.google.com/romance/

5. Google TiSP
Probably the funniest, weirdest prank from Google. Do yourself a favor, visit the page and then click on the "Get Started With Google TiSP"....and see the next page. WTF Google!!??
http://www.google.com/tisp/

6. The Google Wake Up Kit
Do you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning? We do, too. In fact this problem became so serious at times that it sometimes resulted in lacklustre attendance at team meetings. To help solve the problem we've created an innovative solution called the Google Wake Up Kit.
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html

7. Google Health
Google Health puts you in charge of your health information. It's safe, secure, and free.

* Organize your health information all in one place
* Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies
* Keep your doctors up-to-date about your health
* Be more informed about important health issues
https://www.google.com/health

8. Google Flu Trends
Means pretty much what it says. Google tracks flu trends LOL!!!
http://www.google.org/flutrends/


9. GMAIL Paper
Get your GMAIL in paper format. LOL.
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/

10. Google's Virgle
Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

I would like to hear some feedback on this.
These are/were some weird developments from Google don't you think?

Regards,
Reinhardt
#existed #google
  • Profile picture of the author esr
    Cool. I spend so much time working online that I hardly ever get to enjoy stuff like this.
    Thanks for the info.
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  • Profile picture of the author RGallowitz
    Google TiSP is probably the weirdest one of them all. Wireless toilet connection? HAHAHAHA!
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  • Profile picture of the author Alice Seba
    But you're missing the most important key to all of Google's technology:
    Google Technology

    :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author RGallowitz
    hahaha that's also a good one!
    Soon we'll have a huge list that proves the guys over at google are all jokes LOL.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    lol @ the tisp one ... cool stuff
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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Ayres
    4. Google Romance Beta
    Maybe another weird joke from Google. It says on the page: "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."
    Google Romance
    If you do a search you get this

    Romance Not Found

    The requested URL was not found on this server. This means that you either:
    1. 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
    2. 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

      1. ...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
      2. you might want to take a trip down our April Fool's memory lane, here or here or here or here. Enjoy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nathan Denton
    Good for a laugh - thanks.
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