Google Does Dating with Soulmate Search Engine

Known for their clever seasonal logo changes, those wacky folks at Google only practice through Halloween, Christmas, and St. (…)

Known for their clever seasonal logo changes, those wacky folks at Google only practice through Halloween, Christmas, and St. Patrick’s Day for their real favorite holiday: April Fool’s Day.

Saturday, 1 April 2006, Google launched the beta version of its latest and most ambitious search engine yet: Google Romance Soulmate Search.

From the press release:

Google Romance users who find one another via Soulmate Searchâ„¢ 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 (learn more). “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.

What are you waiting for? Go find your soulmate–or an attractive advertiser–on Google Romance.

05 April 2006