Update: It seems that as soon as I published the post – Google published the CADIE page?that it took down. I wanted to delete this page but I’ll let it sit here as a trophy that’ll remind me of something I found first! ?

Wait a minute – the article has a timestamp stating 31st March, 2009 ?12.59.59 pm! Is it some April Fool’s Joke? Google is pretty much onto it every year.

Today while searching on Google I found a link to something called CADIE on Google’s homepage. It was just like how Google was promoting Chrome back when it was released. Google calls CADIE as the singular upgrade to your online life. And if Google calls this an upgrade to online life then it MUST have to be BIG. You can see the screenshot of CADIE I took below -

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Google homepage features CADIE

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When I clicked the link to CADIE I was taken to a 404 [Page Not Found] address -

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CADIE not found?

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?I then Googled CADIE and found this -

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Google snippet for CADIE

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CADIE -?Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity?

and the snippet that followed CADIE was ?-?It’s an exciting moment that we’re determined to build upon by coming to understand more fully what?CADIE’s?emergence might mean, for Google and for our?…