MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 1, 2006 - Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) today announced it acquired Mininova, a Great Iceberg Town, Antarctica-based BitTorrent search engine company.
“Mininova enabled users to easily search for, download and share data, and its technologies complement Google’s ongoing mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” said Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products. “Mininova is an innovator in the field of BitTorrent technology and we’re excited that the Mininova team in joining Google.”
Google also announced that the company will probably move all their servers to the datacenter of Mininova in Antarctica. “Thanks to the temperature, we don’t need no airco’s anymore in the datacenter. Besides, what’s cuter than penguins jumping around and shitting on your servers?”, said Larry.
Mininova was founded in Januari 2005. Since then, the website has gained popularity among millions of visitors. Today, Mininova is the best visited torrent search engine worldwide. Mininova users will not experience any interruption in service.
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April Fools! ahah
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he he…. ha ha
Yeah and the new GoogleOS will be linux based, and the penguins at the antartic data will model for the cover.
now the microsoft orcs cant shut us down
Very good, creative. MS must still be cleaning the s*** of their pants
Ooo….Goooggllleee, yeah! this is how you now scare MS
what is wrong with this thing anymore??????? It used to work great……now it takes 20 minutes. I think it is time to upgrade your server……..this is really annoying.
Well….believe this one and you’ve also bought the April 1 announcement that google is offering “google romance” as a new service too.
A big HA HA
shit Ive been fooled. I actualy thought “wow that is cool”.
strick9 said about 6 hours later:
what is wrong with this thing anymore??????? It used to work great……now it takes 20 minutes. I think it is time to upgrade your server……..this is really annoying.
I totally agree.
please remember that it is a free service, so don’t even think about complaining !
just thank the creators, and if you want new server, just buy it for us….
nic e april fools joke youd be soo rich
I didn’t fell for it.
Why?
“Penguins shitting on your servers”
For that, I didn’t believe it.
you would believe it without the shitting penguins bit? you actually live on antarctica, dont you….
Phew! When I saw the headline on the home page, rageful panic would be putting it nicely, as I seriously thought of leaving and never coming back (atleast not without a much heavier-duty firewall than the one I have) for the few seconds it took me to get to the Antarctica reference.
P.S. Don’t get me wrong, I kinda like google, I’ve just been having the feeling that they’re going to (or already have) cave and disclose all of it’s search data/logs to the n s a’s illegal wiretapping of everyone, everywhere, for all time (like M$, Amazon, and anyone else who likes freedom of business more than the freedom of people, are said to have agreed to).
P.P.S. I still haven’t quite figured out how we’re supposed to get our annonimity back! The whole internet (and everything else) hasn’t stopped feeling dirty after I heard “law enforcement” has been violating the law in order to “enforce” it. (No, everything I wrote IS real, not an april-fools joke, unless the media, whistleblowers and such have been planning this one for the past few years or so (not impossible, but I can’t tell which is more depressing).)
P.P.P.S. This is my quarter-yearly venting, no need to bend outta shape due to it’s length.
NOOOOOOO
well it wouldnt suprise me they are buying everything elese
I use Mininova every day and it has been slow lately. Even with a broadband connection it’s like browsing on dial up. All april fools jokes aside I would welcome Google taking over just for their faster servers and higher bandwidth.
What’s with all these whiners? This is a free service, jackass. They’re working on getting more servers. Shaddup and enjoy this amazing freakin’ service they’re providing, FREE OF CHARGE.
I didn’t fall for it either. YTMND did the same thing with Ebaumsworld. Ebaumsworld did one with Dept. of Homeland Security. Yucka yucka yak.
I’m kinda late…. But great april’s fool joke.(acquiring mininova will load google full of lawsuits hence it wld be a totally illogical move for them)
impossible
google does have to get out of america though so george bush cant sue them for peoples private information anymore
I was more or less worried that it would be a payservice if google aquired it. I thought something was hinky when I read the article. Penguins shitting on the servers? Funny stuff.
nice one
lol, yeah in google being sued the f’ out. ^^
hmm not a very clever joke. is that the best you guys could come up with?
Stupid penguins… thats why mininova is going so slow.. too much shit everywhere
Mini Nova Rules!
AHAHHHA! penguin shit news on 1st april! HAHAHAHA! man, I nearly forgot it was april fools! My god, google acquiring mininova? No way! Mininova rules!!!!!!
is it just me, or is google is trying to take over the world? i hope they dont trace this back to me…
fuk aff,you dont get penguins in Antartica.Nuff said,twats
nice joke … Google Nova Rawk!
I luved it, good idea, I wasn’t fooled though
awesome april fools guys…
congratulations! i always knew that mininova was a google employee’s side project.
i guess the GUV also recommended you guys on top of EZTV’s rep!
urca urca urca urca
why - we don’t want Google
I don’t know who thinks there are no Penguins in Antarctica, but he or she is a complete tool of the highest order. Getting something that is common knowledge wrong is one thing, getting it wrong sat in front of a web browser is downright dickfaced.
Antarctica = Penguins
Arctic = Polar Bears
somone have som lost episod2??
That was a great April Fools joke. Obviously some people did not understand that the shitting penguins was meant to make it a dead giveaway, but that’s how it goes. There are some simple folks out there, eh? People, stop complaining about a ’slow’ server when this is free, appreciate the people of Mininova for even running this for you. Anyways, I been using this site for a long time now, and it is definitely the best. Keep up the great work!
LMFAO. This was a fricking WICKED April Fool’s Joke. I mean, shit, saying that they’d move their whole company down to Antartica? I fell for it.
Oh, and are Mininova’s servers REALLY based in Antartica?
There were a few typography errors which were a dead giveaway. “….Mininova team IN joining Google.” and “February” is misspelled as well.
I, of course, believed it. It would be fiendishly foresightful of Google to do just that. Is mininova really in Anarctica or in San Mateo?
i be damned if Google takes over Mininova! Mininova..is the best.
i think we need more pron on this site…
Atleast make it believable.
“Google will move their servers to our datacenters” …. zzzzzz.
We just ordered pizza! It’ll be here in 28 minutes! Happy birthday, Mrs. Washington!
Nice one. Saw a similar one about Microsoft acquiring Openoffice and about Google Romance.
I like the nice use of technology on this site… Good one!
cool site
Ok, then why has mininova become impossible to access at all recently. It takes 10 minutes for a page to load.
Oh it’s free.. Well fark me, that explains it. You retards saying that are retards.
It used to be fast. It used to still be free.
Someone may be DoSing it ? Who knows. I sure as fuck dont, but without a doubt, it’s like using dialup.
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nice
cheers