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Moose_Island
01-04-2008, 01:43 AM
So here we have it, Google Australia have already pulled their stunt. Could have been more subtle, but it's still funny. :D

About gDayâ„¢ technology

The core technology that powers gDayâ„¢ is MATEâ„¢ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation).

Using MATE’sà¢ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¾Ã‚¢ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future.

Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now.

We can use this technique to predict almost anything on the web – tomorrow’s share price movements, sports results or news events. Plus, using language regression analysis, Google can even predict the actual wording of blogs and newspaper columns, 24 hours before they’re written!

To rank these future pages in order of relevance, gDay™ uses a statistical extrapolation of a page’s future PageRank, called SageRank.

gDay™ and MATE™ were developed in Google’s Sydney R&D centre. Click here to apply for a job

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Cheese
01-04-2008, 01:45 AM
Haha that's classic. :D

As for me...
Air New Zealand put out a fake competition for a trip to a pacific island. I wasn't thinking so entered... :D

Post here if you get tricked by and April Fools joke. :P

Cheese
01-04-2008, 01:48 AM
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Moose_Island
01-04-2008, 01:50 AM
The thing is... I already knew about this yesterday. Oh yeah, and I won the lottery.

TeRp
01-04-2008, 02:32 AM
lol, they always have some pretty good stuff for april's fools.
Definatley a funny joke, but you just have to read the first few sentences until it becomes clear "Wait! It's April 1st!" :)

henning123
01-04-2008, 09:10 AM
Very very funy!! Congrats to Google for such ingenius thinking for April Fools day!!

haylzj
03-04-2008, 07:42 AM
Very clever indeed, I love all this april fools stuff.

nofun
11-04-2008, 12:25 AM
LOL Yeah nothing can beat a good April fools Joke.

pjzapped
11-04-2008, 05:10 PM
Laptops direct said they would give £5000 for body advertising, ie tattoo on the forehead, apparently they had alot of offers!