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Google Gulps Down April Fools, Wikipedia Bought?

lardiop   on 01 April 2005 - 06:47 · 24 comments & 7230 views

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Unlike the GMail storage increase, Google Gulp is one of the first big April Fools jokes floating around the internet this year:

"At Google our mission is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information's usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who's using it. That's why we're pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of "smart drinks" designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty."

Looks as though Wikipedia has been bought by Encyclopedia Britannica...

"On April 1, 2005, Encyclopædia Britannica - The Free Encyclopædia announced its immediate semi-hostile takeover of the Wikimedia Foundation and all of its projects (now to be called Britannican reference subdivisions), including Wikipedia (now called Wikipædia)"

View: Wikipedia Bought Out
View: Google Gulp

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#1 vetcashman on 01 Apr 2005 - 09:41
There wasn't an addition for Butts, Seymour. So I added it to Wikipedia.

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