April's Fool? hahahahah
http://www.google.com/tisp/index.html

yes ;
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/89950.html#id90600

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heh... this part is great.

http://www.google.com/tisp/faq.html

"How can Google offer this service for free?
We believe that all users deserve free, fast and sanitary online access. To offset the cost of providing the TiSP service, we use information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood of developing particular medical conditions going forward. Google also offers premium levels of service for a monthly fee (see below).
Note: We take your privacy very seriously. So we treat all TiSP users' waste-related personal information with tremendous discretion, in accordance with our Privacy Policy."

Heh:
http://www.google.com/tisp/notfound.html

http://www.google.com/tisp/images/tisp_logo_sm.gif

It's more like a huge advert for the Google Toolbar than anything else! Still it's a good one this year. Can I get some Google branded rubber gloves? :-)

So...... is that it? :(

Funny, but where's the ground-breaking communication app i was after?

What ground-breaking communication app?

Good pick Tony :)

LOL! i wish they had made a real new app though. Fensi or Presently released.

Check the day this was released. April 1st, aka APRIL FOOLS

It had me mystified. I thought they had been hacked at first, lol...

How about Gmail Paper?

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html

I already got two boxes of photos delivered, excellent service for printing my 15gig photo gallery...

A blatant rip-off of my idea:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/13240

Well this one stinks!!!

So they will rebrand themselves to Loogle next? I don't give a shit!

It's on Google Homepage now
"New! Get FREE breakthrough broadband with Google TiSP (BETA)."

TOMHTML: It has been on the Google homepage all day for me.

here's the press release:

Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

"Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you – not to mention from you."

For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. "There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and – splat – right onto your PC."

Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home installation is a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within sixty minutes, the Access Node's crack team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and running.

"I couldn't be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product," said Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience. "I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom."

Interested consumers, contractually obligated partners and deeply skeptical and quietly competitive backbiters can learn more about TiSP at http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html.

About Google Inc.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. wannabes Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

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I got taken by this because I checked google reader while drunk. I read the whole "press release" and everything else.... but had no idea that it had anything to do with toilets until this morning.

I was thinking "wow, google is making a WiFi network!?" and never caught on to anything regarding the content of the page other than that.

I think this will be the future.
My coffee cup, my guitar, my everything, can be online. I can control them.
Online everytime, everywhere, and only I down the power.

im more concerned about them nanobots gettin into our homes thruw the toilet system every and all our privecy will be no more.....

Real funny. Wireless internet through your toilet. Give me a break. The first time I saw that, I knew it was a April fool's joke. The creative team at google needs to come up with better ideas for April fool's jokes.

hahaha great joke lol, by any chance are the people that created this joke from germany? lol. there you can aturly get your wast analised!! lol no joke!!!!, it is comon pratice, ;-}

This might be a joke but there must be some truth to it. Google's recent purchase of "dark fiber' has caused much speculation why they'd need the bandwidth. Many have already speculated that Google is getting into ISP business. So Google offering wireless service is not that far off.

Karl

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I would love if my toilet could access the internet

Almost got me until I read the instructions. And where do you learn the truth, why Google Search of course.

This definatly got me and I got excited because Im a cheap bastard. It does not seem to far off or too impractical to provide FREE broadband internet serivce. Google is taking over the world, why not provide free internet service through the toilet? Quite frankly the idea excited me when I first read it and thought it was legitamate now i just feel really shitty about the whole thing

lmao....Top april fools joke...you got me....until google wrote up that a PHD will go thru the sewage system...just had images. Id be asking top flaming dollar to go thru a sewage system....lol

even though its all a big bunch of crap(did you all catch that pun lol!), it still a great idea if you think about it. toilet wi-fi lol!!!!

google got us good!!!!

i believed the Tisp for a while considering all these weird things coming out now days it wouldnt have been suprising lol until a little later i was chattin wit a friend and he told me some stuff and said it wasnt true on top of that drinks that give you knowledge thats what the 1920ians wanted but didnt get i didnt fall for that but the one i thought was most true was google romance because there is so many romance sites it seemed like it would have made google profitable and i wondered about the wire what happened if it got "messy" after that bean burrito last night but they got me 50% on this one ill be prepared in 2008 lol!

lolzzz gud one eh!! u actually got me..i was wondering abt the TiSP connection thing 4 pretty long time..i was thinking, "how can u get wireless connection thru ur toilet? and of thatz possible y wud ppl pay the huge internet companies!?" lolzz
it never occured to me that today was April fool's day..GUD ONE u all!! =P

luv it! =D

HAHAHAHA...
PHD's down in the sewer! yah LOL

Read the FAQ's, super crap... hehe....

I'm having trouble installing or using TiSP.
Your internet connection should be working within one hour of GFlushing the sinker. If you still aren't online after that period of time, your toilet may be clogged. Please flush three more times, then check your online connection again. If you're still experiencing problems, drop eight mints into the bowl and add a two-liter bottle of soda.

Google Bakra!!!

OK THIS ROCKS MY SOCCKS I Cant believe this! i can still use the toliet too this is amazing!

this is all stupid shit.

you guys should get the f out

nice, never had me fooled though

hai what is the speed or rate of transmission
it work it out only in majopur cities

when my dad first told me this, i believed it. i feel lyk such a gullible idiot now, especially because i didn't even realize it wasn't real when he told me about the 3 speeds they announced: Trickle, The # 2, and The Royal Flush. im surprised i wasn't one of the tens of thousands they already had calling in asking how to get TiSP serviced to their commode