Google announced a novel way to access the Internet -- via the toilet -- in an April Fool's Day gag on its website Sunday.

The Mountain View, California-based technology concern introduced its "Dark Porcelain" project, with Internet access via computer users' household plumbing.

The "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) project highlighted on Google's webpage is "a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system."

"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," the website says, quoting Google co-founder and president Larry Page.

"What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you -- not to mention from you," the mock press release read.

The company hailed the breakthrough technology "that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities."

"There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," said Page.

"And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and -- splat -- right onto your PC."

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上周日，Google 在其網(wǎng)站上發(fā)布了一條愚人節(jié)惡搞新聞，自稱開發(fā)了一種能通過廁所上網(wǎng)的最新上網(wǎng)方式。

據(jù)地處加利福尼亞州山景城的Google公司介紹，這個名為“黑陶瓷”的項目主要是通過計算機用戶家里的管道上網(wǎng)。

Google公司在其網(wǎng)站上宣傳的這一“廁所互聯(lián)網(wǎng)服務(wù)”是“一項可自行安裝、支持廣告、完全免費的在線服務(wù)；用戶的計算機只要能無線上網(wǎng)，家中的廁所只要與當(dāng)?shù)氐南滤老到y(tǒng)相通即可連通?！?/p>

Google在這條新聞中還援引公司的創(chuàng)建人之一兼總裁拉里?佩奇說：“目前這一‘可連通世界’的項目已基本在我們的掌控之中?！?br>這則惡搞新聞稱，“有意思的是，接受一條信息的模式就有很多種，更不用說發(fā)布信息。”

Google公司大贊這項具有突破性的技術(shù)“充分利用了現(xiàn)有的管道和下水道系統(tǒng)以及相關(guān)的液壓數(shù)據(jù)傳輸能力?！?
佩奇說：“實際上，一個蓬勃發(fā)展的小型地下組織對此已經(jīng)研究很久了?！?/p>

“如今，我們的廁所ISP團隊對于能領(lǐng)先于這一領(lǐng)域感到很高興，實現(xiàn)了個人電腦與廁所中下水道的連接。”

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