It's not all a crock of shit! When you are sitting on a hundred and forty billion or so of corporate networth, you can afford to have a down-the-toilet sense of humour and actually get away with it.
Google has successfully taken April Fool's day to a new (low) level. This year's April fool prank involves a link on the Google home page, to a site offering consumers free high-speed wireless Internet through their home plumbing systems.
According to Google the project code-named "Dark Porcelain" said its "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) works with Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows Vista operating system. But sorry—septic tanks are incompatible with the system's requirements.
For adding more authenticity, the gag included a mock press release quoting Google co-founder and president Larry Page, a step-by-step online installation manual, and a scatological selection of FAQs. On some Google sites, the company's official logo—a multicolored "Google" that changes according to the season and on holidays—substituted a commode for the second "g."
And then there's the gem by Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience that: “I couldn't be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product. I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom
To see the miracle technology, start here... http://www.google.com/tisp/
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