Google Gulp

Google Gulp, was a tea-based smoothie served at the now defunct restaurant Calafia, in the Town & Country Mall, in Palo Alto, CA. Everything else about the term "Google Gulp" is probably true, but the claim that a Google Gulp is a fictitious drink is not true. The recipe is online if you care to make it.

The actual imaginary drink the  Google Gulp was announced by Google in 2005. According to the company, this beverage would optimize one's use of the Google search engine by increasing the drinker's intelligence. It was claimed this boost was achieved through real-time analysis of the user's DNA and carefully tailored adjustments to neurotransmitters in the brain (a patented technology termed Auto-Drink; as the "Google Gulp FAQ" suggests, partly through MAO inhibition). The drink was said to come in "four great flavors": Glutamate Grape (glutamic acid), Sugar-Free Radical (free radicals), Beta Carotty (Beta-Carotene), and Sero-Tonic Water (serotonin). This hoax was probably intended as a parody of Google's then invite-only email service called Gmail. Although ostensibly free, the company claimed the beverage could only be obtained by returning the cap of a Google Gulp bottle to a local grocery store: a Catch-22. In the Google Gulp FAQ, Google replies to the observation "I mean, isn't this whole invite-only thing kind of bogus?" by saying "Dude, it's like you've never even heard of viral marketing."