Thursday, April 1, 2010

Google's April Fools pranks!

Love em.


  • In response to Topeka Kansas changing its name to Google, Google has changed its name to Topeka.

  • Expanding Google Translate, there is now Google Translate for Animals, for Android.

  • Of course, when you're on the run, sometimes you might get lost; now you can find yourself, by simply Googling on your mobile device, "Where am I".

  • Who wants the convenience of 2010, when you can go back to 1997, and enjoy the old ways of accessing your voice mail? Google Voice now has Standard Voicemail Mode.

  • Quite honestly, books are boring. Now, thanks to Google Books however, you can see text come alive in 3D!

  • I misplace things all the time. Fortunately, Google Docs will now allow us to upload anything to the cloud, just $0.10/kg!

  • This is just awesome-o. Youtube has to spend a lot of money to broadcast all those videos people post. To save money, they've now installed TEXTp which uses text instead of video!

  • Google Wave now has special notifications, for those of us that need a better way of being alerted to changes in a Wave.

  • Why, they've even gotten into the spirit Down Under.

  • And forget Google Fiber; now they're introducing TiSP, a free in-home broadband service!

  • This one is a bit different. Do a Google search. In the blue bar, you'll see something like, "Results 1 - 10 of about ____ for ___. (at 2.88 hertz)" The key being, of course, the stuff between the braces ().

  • And speaking of 3D, Google Maps Street View now has a little icon guy with 3D glasses, enabling you to switch back and forth between 3D views and normal viewing.

  • Google now has the Google Annotations Gallery (GAG for short) which is an open source Java library.

  • And along those lines of stuff only geeks would enjoy, you can now include "evil=true" in your API requests, so that Google can identify people who are evil.

  • This last one is awesome. Google Japan has come up with a newfangled keyboard.


Whew! I think they've surpassed all expectations.

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