Its April 1st and here goes Google again - GMail Paper and Google TiSP

Alright Google has been playing prank with us every April 1st since April 2000 when they said they were going to introduce the Google Mentalplex, a new search technology. Its April 1st again and we now have a new feature on GMail, GMail Paper, sounds really really prank like.

You Click, We stack, You Get. Ok so the site says you can order any number of prints 1 or thousand or ten thousand, but what about the cost of printing and mailing them? They have and anser for this too

The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica. No pop-ups, no flashy animations

What if your e-mail has music files as attachments?

MP3 and WAV files will not be printed

Ok now doesnt that sound funny enough? Who prints ads in 36pt. Helvetica except when its APril 1st and we obviously know that MP3 and WAV files cannot be printed, do they have to answer question? And just image the privacy concerns, anyone on the way could possibly read the e-mail, people were just uneasy when bots were reading their email so that targeted advertising could be possible but now when your email goes to print someone has to put it in the envelope and there is a very good chance that they may get curious sometime or the other.]

Even if it is really true that Google will send us our email via regular mail on request, just image the amount of abuse the service is going to face, there are very few good people in the world who use free services only when it is necessary and apparently you and me are not one of them. The world would be just so curious to see if the mail will really reach them and will end up seding unnecessary requests. And image the amount of paper required to print all this, even if they use recyclabla paper what about the envelopes and stamps? Going by the size of the pacage the woman in the picture is receiving this is just another April fool’s prank from Google.

This April there is more for us, we have another new service from Google, Google Teaspoon (Google TiSP)

Apparently Google TiSP is a high speed internet service which works through your toilet !

Take a look at this diagram and you will know

You should actually go read this one on the Google website, its just hilarious, there is a comparsion chart too so that you can easily choose the plan. This is how the final setup will look like

Haha this was a good one Google, it was really fun to read through the service and its Press Release !

Links

GMail Paper

GMail TiSP

And if you feel like you didnt get enough, you can go have a look at the list of Google pranks at Wikipedia

2000: Google MentalPlex
2002: Pigeon Rank
2004: Google Lunar/Copernicus Center
2005: Google Gulp
2006: Google Romance
2007: Gmail Paper
2007: Google TiSP

Update: Here is the Official announcement that GMail Paper is not a real service but just an April fools’ joke.