Google is a great company that likes to have a joke, since 2000, Google have created April Fool’s jokes and with todays two ingenius pranks I have decided to show you the history of their April Fools.
1) Google’s MentalPlex
This basically reads your mind and then searches for what you wanted automatically.
View: http://www.google.com/intl/en/mentalplex/
2) PigeonRank
Based upon Google’s PageRank, it ranked pages by the number of pecks a pigeon produced.
View: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
3) Google Copernicus Center
Google’s hiring scheme for the new research center they were creating on the moon.
View: http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
4) Google Gulp
A new drink from Google that claims to increase your intelligence.
View: http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
5) Google Romance
Google’s new dating service with advertising.
View: http://www.google.com/romance/
6) Google TiSP
Announced today, this would provide a free broadband service to everyone, read my post on this here.
View: http://www.google.com/tisp/
7) GMail Paper
Receive your emails via paper for free, attachments included. More on my post here
View: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
And let’s not forget that GMail was seen as an April Fool’s Prank as well back on April 1st 2004, obviously it wasn’t, but back then 1GB was a ridiculous amount of storage space for emails.
So that’s a look back at Google’s April Fool’s over the years, I wonder what is in store for next year, maybe the release of Google OS???
Simon North
