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04-01-2006, 11:37 PM
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Google Opens New Dating Site
http://www.google.com/romance/tour.html
I just noticed on Google, which I keep as a home page, that they are going into the internet dating business. It's still in BETA. I thought some of you single guys might want to check it out.
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04-02-2006, 03:19 AM
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LMAO I saw that earlier, you're a bad bad girl.
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04-02-2006, 08:44 AM
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What are they going to do?
Show the searches a user has made (those are stored based on IP, by Google), when you get in touch with him / her?
Or will that be a paid service: "Do you want to know whether or not your prospective partner to be has made a search on Ms. Spears' statue? On idiots in Kalmukkia?"
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04-02-2006, 10:04 AM
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Whatever happened to meeting your prospective mate face-to-face on your own? :?
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04-02-2006, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul
LMAO I saw that earlier, you're a bad bad girl.
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I didn't sign up....but if it was 10 years ago I sure would've. I used to loev those sites and had such a great time! I dated so many guys off of 'MilitaryFriend' that I don't even remember half their names. I do remember drinking vasts amount of beer and partying every weekend. |
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04-02-2006, 10:44 PM
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Oh, I guess you don't know. That's a lame April Fool's joke they put up, if you follow the links and read the site, it even says that.  |
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04-02-2006, 10:47 PM
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Oh, I guess you don't know. That's a lame April Fool's joke they put up, if you follow the links and read the site, it even says that. |
DAMMIT....I'm just SOOOOO STUPID sometimes! |
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04-02-2006, 11:06 PM
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naw just a sucker |
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04-04-2006, 10:44 AM
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It LOOKED like a good site idea!  |
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04-04-2006, 12:43 PM
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just the wording in the thing made it look fake...but im good at spotting scams cause im usually the one puling the prank.
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04-04-2006, 12:55 PM
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I did not suspect a joke at all, I must admit. Over here it was already 2nd of April, when that link was posted.
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:37 am
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- 6:37 AM here (it seems the site has an issue with Daylight Savings Time)
Besides, for a company like Google, it has a lot of marketing potential, as I noted above.
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04-04-2006, 04:34 PM
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yeah it was a good joke, as it was just real enough to be believable, blurring reality and fiction is what a good prank is about.
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04-04-2006, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by darkangelism
blurring reality and fiction is what a good prank is about.
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Sometimes it feels like that is what my whole life is all about.....  |
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04-04-2006, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by darkangelism
blurring reality and fiction is what a good prank is about.
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And it is what alcohol does
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04-04-2006, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Vautrin
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Originally Posted by darkangelism
blurring reality and fiction is what a good prank is about.
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And it is what alcohol does |
I guess that just answered MY post too.............. |
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