[DanBC]

> Even more disturbing is that somebody at Google dreamed this up, and got together a team of engineers to crank this out. And at what cost in labour? 100's of thousands? Don't they have better things to do?

It's an advert to recruit staff. Google wants good staff; that costs money; a good way to attract some staff is to show fun neat projects.

[angdis]

I don't see how an unfunny internet-scale April Fool's prank recruits top-talent.

What does it recruit for? People who have a bad sense of humor?

... and yes, I am still bitter about google reader.