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April Fools: Google Introduces us to 'CADIE'
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April 1, 2009
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Tech Tools
Google continues its April Fools' - foolery - with another extensive prank that seems to have left no Google offering untouched. This year’s prank (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity - CADIE for short) takes the form of an artificial-intelligence research project that has adopted the persona of a seemingly innocent Panda 'avatar'. Shortly after being deployed, we learn that CADIE has taken it upon herself/himself/itself to unleash a series of Google feature enhancements. The modifications are all based on CADIE's analysis of how these products are used in the marketplace, allowing Google to have a little fun at the users expense. A few highlights are listed below. Let us know if you find any other worthy mentions. Kudo's to Google for another great buzz generating effort!
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-google-chrome-with-3d.html
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-google-brain-search-for.html
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=9Oth-C9DNco
http://picasa.google.com/
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