{"id":8871,"date":"2006-04-01T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/04\/01\/news-maps-mail-romance.html"},"modified":"2006-04-01T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T19:29:15","slug":"news_maps_mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/01\/news_maps_mail.html","title":{"rendered":"News … Maps … Mail … Romance!<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google extends its reach, leveraging its broad services to enter yet another arena (in Beta, natch): Google Romance<\/a>. From the press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Google Romance users who find one another via Soulmate Search\u2122 may then select the Contextual Dating option, which offers an all-expenses-paid romantic evening in exchange for viewing contextually relevant advertising throughout the course of the users’ date (learn more). “Our internal projections say Contextual Dating is going to be unbelievably huge, just a total cash cow,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt in prepared remarks placed into the notes section of an executive PowerPoint presentation and intended solely for internal use but promptly leaked onto the web and then roundly mocked on Digg and Slashdot. The product, a beta release currently residing on Google Labs, can be experimented with at www.google.com\/romance\/<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the timing is, as usual, perfect<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(via Beth<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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