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Haha! Google was back with its April Fool antics and this time the guys at Gmail joined in as well. Google promised a Toilet Internet Service while its mail service announced free print-outs! I will wager that the latter would ACTUALLY have takers in India - especially bureaucrats who have files in their IN and OUT trays with print-outs of official emails checked by junior staff!

Google has been doing these fun April 01 jokes since inception - you can find a list of them here.

The amazing part though is that fairly respectable news establishments continue to fall for these gags lock, stock and barrell. Business Standard, for instance reported it as fact although the article was quickly taken down.