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Title: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: GeeP on April 01, 2007, 09:53:18 PM
Check it out!  http://www.google.com/tisp/
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: nightrider on April 02, 2007, 01:09:03 AM
stfu.

you used to be able to google "failure" and if you hit "i'm feeling lucky" it went to the White House with Bush's homepage :P. They get away with a lot there apparently.
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: porsche4786 on April 02, 2007, 01:06:17 PM
hah, and its free! yes!!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: pandy on April 02, 2007, 01:33:12 PM
 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: sledge on April 02, 2007, 03:30:01 PM
C-mon..hands up, who fell for it?  The papers over here have rated it as the best April fools gag for years.
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: GeeP on April 02, 2007, 03:46:19 PM
I'll admit it took me a couple of minutes and a calendar check.   :icon_razz:
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: Jughead on April 02, 2007, 05:41:45 PM
Damn my Outhouse Trolls are over Charging me. :mad: :mad: Looks Like it will be A While Before I will be able to Upgrade to Public Sewers. :mad:
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: pandy on April 02, 2007, 06:22:22 PM
I had to go to the FAQ before I caught on...  :laugh:
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: groff22 on April 03, 2007, 08:20:43 AM
Ha, nice. I'm in that industry... Sent the link around the office for a good laugh.
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: pandy on April 03, 2007, 09:46:52 PM
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html

:laugh:
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: Unnamed on April 05, 2007, 09:01:22 PM
Quote from: nightrider on April 02, 2007, 01:09:03 AM
stfu.

you used to be able to google "failure" and if you hit "i'm feeling lucky" it went to the White House with Bush's homepage :P. They get away with a lot there apparently.

That was actually "miserable failure", which isn't a terribly popular phrase. A bunch of people just set up links to make the Bush site the most popular result for those words, and the "I'm feeling lucky" button is just to skip automatically to the first result. It wasn't really Google's doing, but some people who knew how to exploit Google's pageranking system.

Also, broadband by flushing an ethernet cable is a great idea. I mean the infrastructure is already there, except all the obvious problems it would be pretty awesome.
Title: Re: Google offers broadband internet!
Post by: GeeP on April 07, 2007, 12:03:26 AM
Quote from: pandy on April 03, 2007, 09:46:52 PM
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html

:laugh:

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