Logo of web search engine Google seen behind a computer keyboard

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 Porcelain¹" project, with Internet access via computer users' household plumbing².

The "Toilet Internet Service Provider" (TiSP) project highlighted on Google's webpage is "a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely³ 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 hydraulic⁴ data-transmission capabilities⁵."

"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 sewers⁶, up out of your toilet and -- splat -- right onto your PC."