Google Romance - contextual dating April Fools Joke from Google
When it comes to April Fools' day, Google never lets down its loyal fans. This year they launched Google Romance, a "contextual dating" service.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
"Our mission, as you might have heard, is to organize the world's information," said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's senior vice president, product management. "And let's face it: in what area of life is the world's information more disorganized than romance? We thought we could use our search technology to help you find that special someone, then send you on a date and use contextual ads to help you, ya know - close the deal."
Google Romance users who find one another via Soulmate Search™ may then select the Contextual Dating option, which offers an all-expenses-paid romantic evening in exchange for viewing contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of the users' date. "Our internal projections say Contextual Dating is going to be unbelievably huge, just a total cash cow," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt in prepared remarks placed into the notes section of an executive PowerPoint presentation and intended solely for internal use but promptly leaked onto the web and then roundly mocked on Digg and Slashdot. The product, a beta release currently residing on Google Labs, can be experimented with at www.google.com/romance/.
The funny thing is, I wouldn't be surprised to see Google come out with a dating service. They've dabbled in everything else, so why not dating? This one's obviously not the real deal, but someday, who knows?
Be sure to check out the product tour to catch the funniest parts of this whole thing.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
"Our mission, as you might have heard, is to organize the world's information," said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's senior vice president, product management. "And let's face it: in what area of life is the world's information more disorganized than romance? We thought we could use our search technology to help you find that special someone, then send you on a date and use contextual ads to help you, ya know - close the deal."
Google Romance users who find one another via Soulmate Search™ may then select the Contextual Dating option, which offers an all-expenses-paid romantic evening in exchange for viewing contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of the users' date. "Our internal projections say Contextual Dating is going to be unbelievably huge, just a total cash cow," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt in prepared remarks placed into the notes section of an executive PowerPoint presentation and intended solely for internal use but promptly leaked onto the web and then roundly mocked on Digg and Slashdot. The product, a beta release currently residing on Google Labs, can be experimented with at www.google.com/romance/.
The funny thing is, I wouldn't be surprised to see Google come out with a dating service. They've dabbled in everything else, so why not dating? This one's obviously not the real deal, but someday, who knows?
Be sure to check out the product tour to catch the funniest parts of this whole thing.
posted by Dave @ 7:24 AM
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