Google: The Dude’s Fish Store?
This post was published 4 years 14 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.It seems like Google, Yahoo!, and MSN are continually playing little pranks on one another when it comes to online mapping services. A cheap shot here, a low blow there. When are they all going to graduate from the trivial juvenile games and spend some hard earned dough for a good prank?
Yahoo engineers apparently couldn’t help themselves. The beta of the new Yahoo Maps for a short while listed “The Dude’s Fish Store” at 1600 Amphiteatre Parkway in Mountain View, CA. [...] Yahoo claimed to have further information about the store, listing hours of operation (only open in summer) and an assortment of fish, hamsters, gold fish, snakes and spiders. Languages spoken are German and Russian.
Although the info has been updated, and the phone message removed, I think Yahoo! takes the cake as far as sneaky pranks go in the geek world. You can check The Dude’s Fish Store website here.