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Yahoo Map Engineers Prank Google
pete314 writes "Yahoo engineers apparently couldn't help themselves, and Yahoo Maps had a great prank on the folks at Google. The beta of the new Yahoo Maps for a short while listed 'The Dude's Fish Store' at 1600 Amphiteatre Parkway in Mountain View, CA. The address is better known as the headquarters for Yahoo's competitor Google." From the post: "The phone number listed is for guy named Ruben Suterwitz (or that's what it sounds like on his voicemail). His voicemail gives the option to get assistance, forwarding callers to the Google front desk. There are several hints pointing to a Google prank. The search engine's co-founder Sergey Brin was born in Russia and both he and his buddy Larry Page were students at Stanford when they founded the company. "
After 4 refreshes still virginal, I should pop the cherry. FP!
So Yahoo probably put a a rather inane temporary entry for a competitor in one of their own products - something that hardly anyone would really notice, or care about.
Sorry, this is not news for nerds and definitely not shit that matters. More like, news for those who will never, ever have a life. The kind of bland joke you could tell your church-going, 90-year-old great-grand-mother about, that is if she actually knew what a google and a yahoo were.
If anything, it sounds like a thinly disguised advertisement for Yahoo's new map service.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Yahoo maps appear to be much smoother than Google's. The multip point feature is awesome and you can collapse everything in the map. It also includes block view, which I think is borrowed from a9 maps. While we are talking about jokes..here is something funny - http://chunnibabu.blogspot.com/2005/11/google-anno unces-music-player-from.html
lamest prank ever
Chunni Babu, stop posting on slashdot you goddamn troll. And don't post as an AC either. You are a tool. Every single one of your posts is a troll against Google. Who do you work for? And then you even include links to your own blog with anti-google stories. Your e-mail is chunidude@yahoo.com , you have a huge bias against Google for some ungodly reason. Get over yourself, Google provides certain services that are better than Yahoo's. Yahoo maps is particularly shitty, if for nothing else then the fact that it forces users to use flash, not even Microsoft did that.
Regards,
Steve