{"id":199,"date":"2006-04-01T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T20:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/199"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:54:25","slug":"googles-latest-endeavor-google-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/general-interest\/googles-latest-endeavor-google-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s latest endeavor – Google Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google rolled out\u00a0their latest money making plan\u00a0today called Google Romance<\/a>.\u00a0 Millions of single computer geeks around the world are hoping that this venture proves successful, especially one of my friends who tried to join.<\/p>\n

For those that didn’t know, on this same date, Google usually rolls out new products that sometimes don’t quite catch on.<\/p>\n

In 2002 it was Google Pigeon Rank<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2003, it was conspicuously missing, and there was speculation that perhaps it was due to a pending IPO stock offering<\/p>\n

In 2004 it was their ambition Lunar Jobs<\/a> program<\/p>\n

and last year, 2005,\u00a0 there was this\u00a0rollout of Google Gulp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Google Mental Plex<\/a> was in 2000<\/p>\n

For those really interested in\u00a0some quick reasearch, type\u00a0any subject here at the beta pages of a real (?) Google\u00a0service? http:\/\/www.googleaprilfools.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google rolled out\u00a0their latest money making plan\u00a0today called Google Romance.\u00a0 Millions of single computer geeks around the world are hoping that this venture proves successful, especially one of my friends who tried to join. For those that didn’t know, on this same date, Google usually rolls out new products that sometimes don’t quite catch on. 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