On April 1, 2005, Google announced a drink called Google Gulp to "quench your thirst for knowledge."
No, Google was not getting into the food business and this Gulp launch was just another April Fools’ Day prank but it probably inspired a company in India to launch a semi-frozen slush.
The drink is called "gogola" and is available for sale outside shopping malls in Mumbai. Their tagline "make gogola your thirst quencher" which is very similar to that of Google Gulp gives a clue that Gulp probably had some role to play in the launch.
These pictures of the Gogol stalls were captured by Brajeshwar (flickr) and Patrick. Also see this Google Sari the design of which is again inspired by the Google homepage.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/frozen-slush-inspired-by-google-drink/5011/
Reader Comments
That’s one hell of a gola.
Next thing, they are going to 301 Redirect customers to their next closest stall in case they face a 404 Page Not Found (Gola’s run out of stock)
Written by Affan Laghari on 10.20.08
see how google’s inspiring every body, even its April Fools day joke was turned out to be a business :D
Written by Rohan on 10.20.08
Very interesting, full points for out of the box thinking and yeah loved the play of words( google- gogola):)
Written by Kanika on 10.21.08
Hope they do not run into some sort of a copyright/trademark lawsuits with google!
Written by Varun Nagwekar on 10.23.08