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Google Moves Into Drink Market

Posted by Zonk on from the mmmm-google-juice dept.

atrader42 writes "Google has announced on its main page a mysterious new product called "Google Gulp". Featuring qualities such as "autodrink" and brain optimization, Google Gulp promises to be the drink of the future. Although one may be concerned about the fine print, which includes provisions such as "Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter," we should be able to trust them on this. What's next? Yahoo Yoohoo? MSN Munchies?"

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  1. I'm probably reading too much into this, but... by Kittyflipping · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It looks like they might have used this to comment on some of the issues brought up in yesterdays article about prefetching...

    4. What if I don't want to use Auto-Drink(TM)?
    No problem - simply turn off Auto-Drink(TM) on your Google Gulp preferences page.

    5. Well, shouldn't Auto-Drink(TM) be default-off?
    You mean we should cripple a perfectly useful feature just because of a little bad PR?

  2. Get it on Ebay! by vjmurphy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Pick up a cap on Ebay!

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =5181692476&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

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    Spandex Justice
  3. It's already on eBay by Jonavin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... somebody has a bottle cap for sale:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =7146537131

  4. A joke of course... by GweeDo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The thing that I think is great about this is that Google is basically willing to poke fun at themself. There are obviously tons of people that freak out about Gmail's method of showing ads when you view your emails and such, and here we have Google cracking jokes at their own practices. Just classic.

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  5. from the faq by IamLarryboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Q When will you take Google Gulp out of beta?

    A Man, if you pressure us, you just drive us away. We'll commit when we're ready, okay? Besides, what's so great about taking things out of beta? It ruins all the romance, the challenge, the possibilities, the right to explore. Carpe diem, ya know? Maybe we're jaded, but we've seen all these other companies leap headlong into 1.0, thinking their product is exactly what they've been dreaming of all their lives, that everything is perfect and hunky-dory and the next thing you know some vanilla copycat release from Redmond is kicking their butt, the Board is holding emergency meetings and the CEO is on CNBC blathering sweatily about "a new direction" and "getting back to basics." No thanks, man. We like our freedom.