Joke ?? Google wants to form an independent state

[Gerrit]

Google set to buy the GoGooroa Island


A "huge move" in the search engine landscape!

Google, the famous search engine, is set to buy the Island of GoGooroa
early
next month. This island, located in the Pacific Ocean, has two very
special
characteristics that attracted the company:

- The island is shaped like the letter "G", strongly ressembling the
first
letter of the Google name and corporate logo (refer to the attached
map).

- It is geographical owner of the ".go" domain, which is coveted by
many web
site editors around the world.

The search engine company, which is currently headquartered in Mountain
View
(California), is looking forward to this new site in the Pacific Ocean,
on
this island which will be officially renamed Googland in a few weeks.

Its search engine homepage will be also be moved to the "google.go"
domain
name in the near future.

GoGooroa island is a very pleasant place to live and the Googlers
(people
who work at Google) will appreciate many of the advantages of living in
such
a paradise. For example, the Googlers won't pay any tax as the
islanders
will live off the money earned by Google, as an autarkic society. Every
Googler will be required to have a tropical fish on his desk and an
aquarium
in his office.

A minimum of 20% fishing time will be expected of every employee during
the
working day (a "Top 100" of the most beautiful fishes caught will be
updated
in real time).

Cuisine, in Googland, is expected to be primarily fish-based. Fish is
high
in phosphorus and Omega 3 acids which are both important to brain
health and
for improved thought process, an advantage Google intends to leverage
to
beat its competitors in the ongoing search engine war. The chef, former
"Beach Boys" rock band cook, will also have the task to initiate the
Googlers in the regional tropical dances (he has already added the "The
Googland Dance" to his repertoire).

However, not everything is allowed. In fact, every employee out on
their
daily fishing expedition caught shooting out "Yahoooooo!" afeter
netting a
spectular specimen will be punished by having to, for a whole week,
answer
the complaint e-mails from webmasters unhappy with their current
rankings on
the search engine.


Dr. Eric E. Schmidt, Google CEO, will soon be named "Googland Republic
President". Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google co-founders, will both
be
prime ministers, respectively in charge of external commerce and
technology.
A report that Bill Gates could be named "Minister of research,
development
and competition" was leaked to the press, but he recently denied the
project, commenting that "Anyway, I don't like swimming, I prefer the
mountains..."

Sources close to the search engine recently revealed that Google might
be
searching for five other islands, in the shapes of the "O", "O", "G",
"L"
and "E" letters, in other seas and oceans, with the ultimate goal to
create
a worldwide network of datacenters to show its supremacy on all five
continents. Eric W.Foolsday, Google spokesperson, did not comment on or
confim this.

M. David C. BigFish <bigfish.html> has been named the steward of the
island.
David is well known by Abondance web site readers, because he works
with us
for a few years. He went on record: "It's a dream job, I was living in
California and I love fishing. The fish are my speciality. I'm not a
fool,
I'm going to take this job! I'm feeling lucky..."

www.googland.com



This is crazy Is Google's sovereign state going to join the UN and the G8 then? We may even have Google joining the FIFA

[dahamsta]

"David C. Bigfish" Gerrit? Seriously...

adam

[superfrank]

"David C. Bigfish" Gerrit? Seriously...

adam

Hahaha, I think you're having your leg pulled there Gerrit!

[hamish]

It's not 1st April, is it???

[Gerrit]

Well, of course this particular thing is a joke, I mean "everyone must have tropical fish in an aquarium at office" ?!

But the idea is scary. A rich company like Google would be perfectly able to buy a small uninhabited island. Then appoint some of the shareholders and board members for the important posts, attract some immigrants for the less attractive jobs (not too hard if you buy a TROPICAL island in the idyllic Pacific...) and you're started.
In a world like ours today it's perfectly possible to see the most bizarre thing happening, and companies like Google could do it. It's kinda weird, but you never know this funny article puts people to ideas. One nut in a company board could be enough to get started...

[ThatGuy]

Well, of course this particular thing is a joke, I mean "everyone must have tropical fish in an aquarium at office" ?!

But the idea is scary. A rich company like Google would be perfectly able to buy a small uninhabited island. Then appoint some of the shareholders and board members for the important posts, attract some immigrants for the less attractive jobs (not too hard if you buy a TROPICAL island in the idyllic Pacific...) and you're started.
In a world like ours today it's perfectly possible to see the most bizarre thing happening, and companies like Google could do it. It's kinda weird, but you never know this funny article puts people to ideas. One nut in a company board could be enough to get started...

You didn't know it was a joke, Gerrit, did you!

[Gerrit]

There goes my credibility and reputation but seriously: I had strong feelings it was a joke,but I was not entirely sure... I mean, we live in a crazy world, and we had weirder things that did happen in reality. I mean, admit it would have been possible, Google is rich enough for it and I m sure there are really people bearing the surname Bigfish...

Just trying to save whatever is left of my smart guy reputation I admit, I did not dare to say it definitely was a joke.

And by the way, which person has time and money to build a site, pay hosting and domainname, just to create a joke no one believes?? (or hardly no one )

[dahamsta]

A quick Google would have shown it up as bullcrap pretty quickly, or another search engine to remove any doubt. All the results for the names in the article point to that site, or other people commenting on the site. The .go was a dead giveaway for me, since there's no such domain.

I'm not sure why it's scary though. It's bound to happen at some stage and I can't think of many things a corporation with sovereignty could do worse than some of them already do without.

adam [size=1]/dns nerd not exclusively against corporations but not a big fan either[/size]