I saw this earlier and couldn't help noticing the digs at Google Print:
Well, scanners are cheap these days. Really cheap. When you combine a few $60 scanners with some willing Ph.D interns, we expect the entire book scanning project to take no more than 4 weeks and $6,000.
And also Google's "20% Project" concept:
Everything else is being built on our existing infrastructure by a few engineers during their "slacking time." At Yahoo!, engineers sometimes spend parts of their weekends and holidays slacking off. Now, those engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of that slacking time working on the Yahoo! Slacker project.
And their Misspelling Suggestion API seems to really work – http://developer.yahoo.net/web/V1/misspellingSuggestion.html – even the response fields are mispelt (i.e. "Reslut" and "ReslutSet").
Fairly amusing, as was the "Google Gulp" and "Jeeves9000", but MSN wins my vote for this year's April Fool's contest... |
Was that MSN's work or just a parodizer? |
Caleb, I think it was actually MSN's work.
Check WHOIS in Google, and enter the domain into the whois-box. It reveals:
Registrant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
I think the Jeeves9000 videos were really funny. |