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I usually don't give much credence to these stories but this is actually nuts. If this was done without Google aiming to, imagine how easy it would be for them to knowingly build sleeper cells and activate them all at once.
Edit: removed the quote since an other user posted it at the same time and it's a bit of a wall of text to have twice.
It feels like there's some burden for "don't be evil" Google to provide evidence that this wasn't an intentional test run, frankly.