A Fool For Romance

Just because April Fools Day landed on a weekend, it didn't mean that Google would miss out on the opportunity to mess with people's heads...and perhaps their hearts a little. If you were one of the many that fell for the new Google Romance online dating service, then stamp the word "Loser" on your forehead. Google enticed the severely love challenged in by making the bold statement...Pin All Your Romantic Hopes on Google! Forget Match, eHarmony and all those other online dating services, just use Google to search for the love of your life! Google will then help you find "the one" by using their patent Soulmate Search, complete with the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. They will even call upon a psychic to help match you up with that special someone of your dreams!

With Google Romance, you can:

• Upload your profile – tell the world who you are. Or more to the point, who you’d like to think you are. Or even more to the point, who you want others to think you are.
• Search for love in all (or at least a statistically significant majority of) the right places with Soulmate Search, our eerily effective psychographic matchmaking software.
• Endure, via our Contextual Dating option, thematically appropriate multimedia advertising throughout the entirety of your free date.

Even at first glance, it was so blatantly obvious that it was a joke, but I'm surprised to learn that many people actually fell for it. I suppose they finally caught on to the prank when they tried to create a profile. If you attempted to upload your photo, you were called a "sleaze". Google finally let the clueless in by informing them that they just fell for an April Fools Day joke...."Wasn't that amusing and harmless and mostly in good taste and not all psychologically damaging under various and sundry aspects of contemporary tort law, please don't sue us."