Google on Tuesday make April Fool of many users. Google’s social network site Orkut turned into Yogurt on Tuesday. It was just a way to make april fool of Orkut’s user. Google’s popular video sharing site “YouTube” is rickrolling its users big-scale. All the featured videos on the YouTube.com frontpage are currently linking to Rick Astleys Never Gonna Give You Upor as a commenter at YouTube puts it in the comments to the video.
Google competitor Microsoft in the mean-time came up with a plan thats so crazy it just might work, Search Engine Land reports. Instead of buying Yahoo to beat Google, they will pay people in the US $1 million per year to not use Google. A special program will monitor their web activitiy to ensure this.
Theres an estimated 300 million people living in the United States. If you pay each one $1 million for the next three years, thats just under $1 billion. That saves Microsoft $39 billion compared to what it was going to spend on purchasing Yahoo.
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