# Google Romance! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834 "2006-04-01T12:19:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/1 "2006-04-01T12:19:45Z")
[It was only a matter of time. . .](http://www.google.com/romance/index.html) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/2 "2006-04-01T13:42:09Z")
“Pin All Your Romantic Hopes on Google” Very nice. I was hoping the G-men would do something like this for today. Good stuff. "User B: "I never thought I’d be writing an online dating testimonial. Until I met User A…” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/3 "2006-04-01T14:10:15Z")
The FAQs are pretty damn funny. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/4 "2006-04-01T14:59:16Z")
More than anything else, the introduction of this service disturbs me. There are roughly what, a kajillion and three online dating services now? Some of them are running legitimate and highly successful businesses with this, and Google Romance will obviously be one of those. Will old fashioned wooing go the way of the dodo? > [@Google Romance FAQ](#): > > What do you mean when you ask us what we mean when we say Google Romance is a beta product? It is what is it, okay? It’s new, it’s probably still buggy, which is to say that yes, by using this product now you conceivably are setting yourself up for a disastrous outcome – but on the other hand, you might also be on the verge of thrilling to an experience that will transform your very existence and only could have come about because you took this step, right here, right now. You’re online; take a chance. We may never pass this way again. _Carpe diem_. The world could, like, end tomorrow, you know? Gather ye rosebuds while – More like _carpe keyboard_, but whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/5 "2006-04-01T15:00:45Z")
Wait. I’m an idiot, and I forgot what day it was. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/6 "2006-04-01T15:02:35Z")
:rolleyes: Where is Google going? Does it intend to be another Yahoo or MSN? Mail, Romance, Desktop, Blogger, Picasa, Talk, etc. What’s wrong with just being a search engine? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/7 "2006-04-01T15:03:11Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > :rolleyes: Where is Google going? Does it intend to be another Yahoo or MSN? Mail, Romance, Desktop, Blogger, Picasa, Talk, etc. > What’s wrong with just being a search engine? Whoosh… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/8 "2006-04-01T15:24:23Z")
If there conceivably exists a female who exhibits the same google search tendencies as I do, I’m not sure I would want to get within 5 miles of her. Unless she was, like, [Leila Dunbar](http://dunbarsgallery.com/Leila.htm). ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/9 "2006-04-01T15:40:10Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > :rolleyes: Where is Google going? Does it intend to be another Yahoo or MSN? Mail, Romance, Desktop, Blogger, Picasa, Talk, etc. > What’s wrong with just being a search engine? Check your calendar. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/10 "2006-04-01T15:41:53Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > Wait. I’m an idiot, and I forgot what day it was. :smack: Me, too. Reading that, I grew increasingly bewildered…ads during the date? How could they do that? Ah, those wacky Google kids! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/11 "2006-04-01T15:48:20Z")
I checked Google this morning, just to see. The Google Romance thing reminded me of this [Joy of Tech](http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyimages/797.gif) comic. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/12 "2006-04-01T16:15:53Z")
HA! I love this one > [@Google Romance](#): > > Post multiple profiles with a bulk upload file, you sleaze ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/13 "2006-04-01T16:18:02Z")
Past April Fools Google Jokes: [http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar\_job.html](http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html) [http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html](http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html) [http://www.google.com/mentalplex/](http://www.google.com/mentalplex/) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/14 "2006-04-01T16:23:27Z")
I’m a little disappointed they didn’t kick up the Gmail storage to 3 gig today, like I expected. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/15 "2006-04-01T16:35:40Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I’m a little disappointed they didn’t kick up the Gmail storage to 3 gig today, like I expected. They actually [ran out of storage](http://www.google.com/romance/multiple_profile.html) today > [@](#): > > Database Capacity Exceeded (again) > > That’s just great - once again, the sheer volume of our users’ thirst for our products has exceeded our capacity to quench it, therefore, deja vu, this service is not available at this time (at least not to you). It would appear that you either: > > 1. Fell for our April Fool’s joke, in which case ha ha, 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; or > > 2. Are genuinely enjoying, or least momentarily tolerating, our April Fool’s joke and wanted to surf your way into its every last nook and cranny, in which case 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/16 "2006-04-01T19:25:26Z")
::sigh:: :smack: :smack: :smack: :rolleyes: :smack: That was one looong whoosh… ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/17 "2006-04-01T19:56:15Z")
The [press release](http://www.google.com/romance/press.html) is pretty good too: > [@](#): > > “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. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-romance/350834/18 "2006-04-01T20:15:52Z")
Google, _needs_ to do this now. I see serious potential. Especially this part: "When you do a Soulmate Search, your deeply personal and potentially life-altering search results are produced solely by computer algorithm, without human intervention of any kind. Note: depending on your personality, you may or may not find this reassuring." Google will rule the world.