2007-08-28

Rumor: Google's GPhone will turn lead into gold

I should first let you know that I don't work for Google, I don't personally know anyone who works for Google, nor has this rumor leaked from anyone even remotely connected to Google in any way. That said, I've been thinking about this, and it seems clear to me that if Google really wants to make a winning product that will beat the iPhone, they will make the GPhone turn lead into gold.

The demand for this feature isn't anything new. In fact, the concept of turning lead into gold has been around for at least a decade. But now that Google is in a position to sell their own cell phones, it just makes sense they would finally invest their resources into making this happen in a user-friendly interface.

An unverified source with no credibility recently claimed to discover that when he searched for "1 kg lead in gold" in some obscure unmentioned localized version of Google, he received a Google Calculator answer: "1 kilogram of lead = $80 billion in gold".

Sergey Brin stated in a recent interview, "Google is not in any way involved in turning lead into gold, nor will it ever be, nor is anyone else that I'm aware of." As our readers have pointed out, there are several ways this statement can be interpreted. It is possible that Google is planning to shift its entire core business into the lead-to-gold conversion market. Anonymous insiders at a company that may or may not be Google have told us that we're absolutely 100% correct and shouldn't even consider the possibility that half the rumors about the GPhone will end up as just that: rumors.

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