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… or are they?

Are they so powerful, and so believable that people get suckered into the ultimate April Fool’s prank by the biggest search engine company in the world?

I’ll admit, I was almost suckered in. But when my friend showed me the link to GMail’s paper service I cracked up.

Yeah ok Google, you’re funny.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html

Google’s Free broadband service

I do wonder… how long will these links have a PR that’s higher than 0?

In any case, happy April Fool’s Day.

I couldn’t help but have a bit of a chuckle when I saw this article this morning.

Is Google Too Powerful?

Where did I find it? Why, in my gmail account of course. THAT’S how powerful Google is. Long ago I pretty much ditched my hotmail account and adopted Gmail by the mere fact that I changed service providers for the first time in 8 years.

Fact is, I’ve lost literally thousands of dollars in lost revenue from personal web pages on old ISP servers that I could no longer retrieve because I either moved or they were bought out by another ISP, or some other sillyness that ensued.

The bulk of my business contacts have now reside with my gmail account and though that makes me slightly nervous, I embraced it on the basis of google’s continuing longevity.

But everything has it’s heyday. There’s always a new mover and shaker, always a new trend. Youtube is my favorite example of this.

Is Google too powerful? Maybe, but while I may have a bit of a love/hate relationship with google right now, I’d like it to remain powerful for a while.