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I don't get it. Is this a demo of Chrome's capabilities? Or something more than that?

I highly doubt that this is Google sanctioned. I think it's some just playing around. (DNS info seems to back up that hunch.)

No way this is Google sanctioned.

It is registered by some "Mark Oakley <d237447q@gmail.com>".

I doubt. Works as well in IE9 as well.