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Pigeon Rank revisited

NateDawg [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, August 26, 2006
17 years ago13,430 views

Found this interesting piece while checking some screen pics of Google wifi (at the bottom of the article)

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One of the projects involved blogging pigeons. Pigeons that had transponders and were collecting pollution & temperature data during the festival and sending the data to a live blog. Now since Google owns Blogger and there's a standing joke about Pigeon Rank, why in the heck didn't Google have anything to do with that project? Seems like a no-brainer to me but who knows?!
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http://www.google.com/technology/pigeon_system.jpg

I'm sure the orignal author didn't mean this, but if pollution (which smells) = "rank" (ie a rank smell) and this information is collected by pigeons, you have Pigeon Rank :)-

Link:
http://www.marketingshift.com/2006/8/google-wifi-exclusive-screenshots.cfm
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

Inferno [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I guess it was an April Fool's joke

NateDawg [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

[put at-character here]inferno – It was an April Fools joke. When I wrote this initially I was in a pretty sleep deprived state. Now that I'm looking at it again, it's not as funny :)-

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