Famous Google April Fool"s Day Jokes and Pranks
Google April Fool's Day Jokes : Auto Hoffsome
Google loves a good April Fool's Day joke. Sometimes the joke is even that it isn't a joke. Every year this list gets longer. Take a tour of some of the many, many April Fool's Day pranks, tricks and jokes from Google.
2014: Google announced a tweak to the "auto awesome" feature in Google+ that takes your uploaded photos and automatically adds animations or special filters. The new feature added occasional photobombs from David Hasselhof.
#Hoffsome
If you tagged David Hasselhof's Google+ account when you shared it, David Hasselhof's account would reply to the post with one of many pre-programmed comments.
Auto Awesome for Resumes
2014: Google's auto awesome doesn't end with the Hoff photobombs. This video introduced a feature that supposedly auto awesomed your resume. Put all the versions of your resume in one folder, and it would combine them into a single, updated resume (that part really would be awesome.) Next, you can add special effects, like snow or dog backgrounds.
YouTube Viral Trends
2014: YouTube reveals that they're secretly behind creating and producing every single viral video ever made. They announce the new trends they'll produce next year include "Kissing Dad," "Glub Glub Water Dance," and "Clocking." They even include a link to how you can submit suggestions for viral memes that they may produce.
Personal Nest Temperature Control
2014: This isn't the first time Virgin has partnered with Google for a prank. Remember Virgle? (If not, it's on this list.) Nest is now owned by Google, so that makes this crazy mashup possible. Total personal temperature control for airline seats.
Coffee to the Home
2014: This new service would combine with your Google Fiber installation to give you coffee at the same time as you get Internet. That way you'd always have your favorite coffee to go with your favorite TV show or website.
Adsense Top Moons and Planets
2014: AdSense weighed in with a "top planets and moons" report for figuring out your intergalactic advertising campaigns.
Qwerty Cats
2014: The official cat keyboard. You know, if your cat likes to type. Available for download from the Chrome store.
AdBirds
2014: This AdWords parody allows you to purchase ads and affix them to flying birds, so your ads "really fly." The parody goes on to include the types of birds you could use for your advertising.
Google Apps for Business Dogs
2014: Google and many other business allow employees to take their dogs to work with them. So this app would use Google apps to make their dogs more productive office workers.
Signature App Editions
2014: This Google web course promises to help users learn how to make decisions without any data using tools such as fuzzy math and Ouija boards.
Translate to Emoji
2014: This is a prank for app developers who want to create that "unboxing" experience for their users.
Chromecast for Squirrels
2014: Google announced an experimental new language translation tool built into Google Translate on Chrome for Android, and iOS. If you use your phone on April 1, you can translate your text to emoji (those little smiley and frowny symbols people use in messaging). The feature only works if you enable it.
Waze Dates
2014: Yeah, that's right. For squirrels.
Magic Hand
2014: Waze is a social driving navigation app and a 2013 Google acquisition. Waze has its own acquisition, SingleSpotter, which is an Israeli based dating service. Well, combine the two, and you've got Waze Dates, a way to end being lonely in your car.
Gmail Shelfies
2014: This is from Google Japan. Magic hand is a robotic hand to operate your mobile phone for you. Now using a mobile device is so easy, you don't even have to touch it.
Catch All the Pokemon
2014: When users opened up their Gmail, they got an alert telling them that they could create a custom Gmail theme based around a selfie, and that this theme could then be shared to other users, "so they could enjoy looking at you as much as you do." In addition to creating a custom "shelfie," users could choose "top trending" celebrity selfies as their theme.
Google Treasure Maps
2014: This game used Google Maps on Android and iOS devices to capture Pokémon. Even better, it started on March 31. By traveling the globe, players can find Pokémon hanging on the maps around major cities. When a Pokémon is encountered, users can then "capture" it and add it to their collection.
YouTube Is Ready to Select a Winner
2013: Google Maps announced that they were making a crowd-sourced treasure map to find the long-lost treasure of Captain Kidd. The original map was allegedly written in a code so obscure that only the power of the crowds could decode it.
Google Nose (Beta)
2013: YouTube announced that they were ready to stop taking submissions and select a winner. They would shut down the site and reopen in 2023 to display only the video of the winner.
Gmail Blue
2013: Rather than just searching by words, why not search by smell? The new smell search service even promises SafeSearch options for those suspicious odors.
And because everything old is new again, there's a marvelous cartoon illustrating how Google Nose would work.
Your Photos + Emotion
2013: How do you reinvent something while keeping it exactly the same? You make everything blue.
Go Ro
2013: Google+ Joke promises, "Using our massive data centers, we will plumb the emotional depths of everyone in the photo, then summarize their feelings with a beautifully crafted, emotion icon."
During the joke duration, users can select one of their photos within Google+ and then see an interpretation of the emotional expression of all the faces in the photo. It's actually a pretty sophisticated prank that gives some insight into Google's facial recognition capabilities.
Click-to-Teleport
Let's go further back in time. The How to Go Mo site, which normally teaches people how to make mobile accessible websites for their customers is now taking it a step further and showing how to make rotary phone accessible websites for your customers.
Gmail Tap
Forget click-to-call. That's so last year. Now your customers can click to teleport directly into your store. Much faster than calling.
Google Weather Control
Take your keyboard from 26 keys to just two: the dot and the dash. This revolutionary "new" technology will take all the frustration out of trying to tap those tiny little keys on your smartphone.
Google Really Advanced Search
Don't like the weather? Now you can change it to something more agreeable.
Google Maps 8-Bit
Rather than just advanced search, this search finds rhyming slang or "This exact word or phrase, whose sum of unicode code points is a mersenne prime"
NASCAR Self-Driving Cars
Turn your Google Maps into a video game. This prank offers an option to rekindle the nostalgia of old 8-bit video games by turning any Google Maps view into an 8-bit graphic display, including Street View.
YouTube Collection
Google and NASCAR teamed up to announce that Google would be introducing self-driving cars into sport racing. The announcement was made just a little before April 1, and the idea is almost plausible. This isn't the first time Google had a partner in crime for their April Fools announcements. Check out Virgle.
This 2012 prank claims to put your favorite YouTube videos onto DVD for home delivery onto your TV. Now when your Internet goes out, you can still watch your viral video favorites.
Google loves a good April Fool's Day joke. Sometimes the joke is even that it isn't a joke. Every year this list gets longer. Take a tour of some of the many, many April Fool's Day pranks, tricks and jokes from Google.
2014: Google announced a tweak to the "auto awesome" feature in Google+ that takes your uploaded photos and automatically adds animations or special filters. The new feature added occasional photobombs from David Hasselhof.
#Hoffsome
If you tagged David Hasselhof's Google+ account when you shared it, David Hasselhof's account would reply to the post with one of many pre-programmed comments.
Auto Awesome for Resumes
2014: Google's auto awesome doesn't end with the Hoff photobombs. This video introduced a feature that supposedly auto awesomed your resume. Put all the versions of your resume in one folder, and it would combine them into a single, updated resume (that part really would be awesome.) Next, you can add special effects, like snow or dog backgrounds.
YouTube Viral Trends
2014: YouTube reveals that they're secretly behind creating and producing every single viral video ever made. They announce the new trends they'll produce next year include "Kissing Dad," "Glub Glub Water Dance," and "Clocking." They even include a link to how you can submit suggestions for viral memes that they may produce.
Personal Nest Temperature Control
2014: This isn't the first time Virgin has partnered with Google for a prank. Remember Virgle? (If not, it's on this list.) Nest is now owned by Google, so that makes this crazy mashup possible. Total personal temperature control for airline seats.
Coffee to the Home
2014: This new service would combine with your Google Fiber installation to give you coffee at the same time as you get Internet. That way you'd always have your favorite coffee to go with your favorite TV show or website.
Adsense Top Moons and Planets
2014: AdSense weighed in with a "top planets and moons" report for figuring out your intergalactic advertising campaigns.
Qwerty Cats
2014: The official cat keyboard. You know, if your cat likes to type. Available for download from the Chrome store.
AdBirds
2014: This AdWords parody allows you to purchase ads and affix them to flying birds, so your ads "really fly." The parody goes on to include the types of birds you could use for your advertising.
Google Apps for Business Dogs
2014: Google and many other business allow employees to take their dogs to work with them. So this app would use Google apps to make their dogs more productive office workers.
Signature App Editions
2014: This Google web course promises to help users learn how to make decisions without any data using tools such as fuzzy math and Ouija boards.
Translate to Emoji
2014: This is a prank for app developers who want to create that "unboxing" experience for their users.
Chromecast for Squirrels
2014: Google announced an experimental new language translation tool built into Google Translate on Chrome for Android, and iOS. If you use your phone on April 1, you can translate your text to emoji (those little smiley and frowny symbols people use in messaging). The feature only works if you enable it.
Waze Dates
2014: Yeah, that's right. For squirrels.
Magic Hand
2014: Waze is a social driving navigation app and a 2013 Google acquisition. Waze has its own acquisition, SingleSpotter, which is an Israeli based dating service. Well, combine the two, and you've got Waze Dates, a way to end being lonely in your car.
Gmail Shelfies
2014: This is from Google Japan. Magic hand is a robotic hand to operate your mobile phone for you. Now using a mobile device is so easy, you don't even have to touch it.
Catch All the Pokemon
2014: When users opened up their Gmail, they got an alert telling them that they could create a custom Gmail theme based around a selfie, and that this theme could then be shared to other users, "so they could enjoy looking at you as much as you do." In addition to creating a custom "shelfie," users could choose "top trending" celebrity selfies as their theme.
Google Treasure Maps
2014: This game used Google Maps on Android and iOS devices to capture Pokémon. Even better, it started on March 31. By traveling the globe, players can find Pokémon hanging on the maps around major cities. When a Pokémon is encountered, users can then "capture" it and add it to their collection.
YouTube Is Ready to Select a Winner
2013: Google Maps announced that they were making a crowd-sourced treasure map to find the long-lost treasure of Captain Kidd. The original map was allegedly written in a code so obscure that only the power of the crowds could decode it.
Google Nose (Beta)
2013: YouTube announced that they were ready to stop taking submissions and select a winner. They would shut down the site and reopen in 2023 to display only the video of the winner.
Gmail Blue
2013: Rather than just searching by words, why not search by smell? The new smell search service even promises SafeSearch options for those suspicious odors.
And because everything old is new again, there's a marvelous cartoon illustrating how Google Nose would work.
Your Photos + Emotion
2013: How do you reinvent something while keeping it exactly the same? You make everything blue.
Go Ro
2013: Google+ Joke promises, "Using our massive data centers, we will plumb the emotional depths of everyone in the photo, then summarize their feelings with a beautifully crafted, emotion icon."
During the joke duration, users can select one of their photos within Google+ and then see an interpretation of the emotional expression of all the faces in the photo. It's actually a pretty sophisticated prank that gives some insight into Google's facial recognition capabilities.
Click-to-Teleport
Let's go further back in time. The How to Go Mo site, which normally teaches people how to make mobile accessible websites for their customers is now taking it a step further and showing how to make rotary phone accessible websites for your customers.
Gmail Tap
Forget click-to-call. That's so last year. Now your customers can click to teleport directly into your store. Much faster than calling.
Google Weather Control
Take your keyboard from 26 keys to just two: the dot and the dash. This revolutionary "new" technology will take all the frustration out of trying to tap those tiny little keys on your smartphone.
Google Really Advanced Search
Don't like the weather? Now you can change it to something more agreeable.
Google Maps 8-Bit
Rather than just advanced search, this search finds rhyming slang or "This exact word or phrase, whose sum of unicode code points is a mersenne prime"
NASCAR Self-Driving Cars
Turn your Google Maps into a video game. This prank offers an option to rekindle the nostalgia of old 8-bit video games by turning any Google Maps view into an 8-bit graphic display, including Street View.
YouTube Collection
Google and NASCAR teamed up to announce that Google would be introducing self-driving cars into sport racing. The announcement was made just a little before April 1, and the idea is almost plausible. This isn't the first time Google had a partner in crime for their April Fools announcements. Check out Virgle.
This 2012 prank claims to put your favorite YouTube videos onto DVD for home delivery onto your TV. Now when your Internet goes out, you can still watch your viral video favorites.
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