Search & Society: April Fool’s
April Fools’ Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the weekend
April Fools' Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the...
April Fools’ 2015 For the Search World: From Super Smart Google Panda To Backwards Google
Google, Bing and Kenshoo are bringing the funny today, polluting the web with gags galore....
April Fools: Google’s Matt Cutts Starts New SEO Spam Tool AutoSEO
Matt Cutts, head of Google search spam, announces AutoSEO at seo.ninja, a tool to automated your SEO. Happy April Fools...
Google’s PAC-Maps Gets April Fools’ Ball Rolling Early, Turns Google Maps Into Pac-Man Video Game
Today's PAC-Maps release is most likely the first of many April Fools' Day gags from Google....
More April Fools: Everything From Tools To Make Your Video Viral To Free Nexus Phones
Yesterday, our editor in chief Matt McGee found a number of Google April Fools jokes already in play, including a Google Maps Pokemon challenge...
Google’s April Fools’ Day Jokes For 2014: Google Maps Pokémon Challenge, Magic Hand & More
Is it just me, or does it seem like Google starts celebrating April Fools’ Day earlier and earlier every year? No company on the web...
Bing’s April Fools’ Jokes Include A Slam On Google & A New SEO Tag
Bing is hopping on the April Fools’ Day joke bandwagon later than Google and even Wolfram Alpha, but it’s taking a swing at Google...
Wolfram Alpha “Handwrites” Answers For April Fools’ Day
Move over there just a little bit, Google. Even Wolfram Alpha, the computation knowledge engine (as it calls itself), is getting in on the April...
Google’s April Fools’ Day 2013 Joke-A-Thon: YouTube Shutdown, Google Nose & More
April Fool’s Day is pretty much like a national … err, international holiday for everyone that works for Google. It seems that...
Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012
It was right about this time last year when we gave Google the winner’s trophy for a series of gags that put all others to shame. We could...
Google Still Delivering On April Fool’s Jokes (AKA, I Got My Finger Sweatbands)
Do you remember this video from a few weeks ago? It was probably the funniest of Google’s myriad April Fool’s Day jokes. Part of the...
For April Fools, Google Goes Comic Sans & Ousts Helvetica
Don’t tell Google that Comic Sans is dead. The company has announced it’s coming back for all products, at least for April Fools...
It’s Over: Google Has Already Won April Fools Day 2011
It’s not even April 1st in Mountain View, but the April Fools Day comedy game is already over and I’m declaring Google the winner....
How To Leave Your Yacht Out Of A TechCrunch Story
Having your yacht mentioned in a TechCrunch article can be alarming. Follow a few simple guidelines, and maybe you can avoid...
Google Books, Google Maps Get 3D View – But Only For April Fool’s Day
Earlier today, a Google PR person gave me a pair of 3D glasses at the Where 2.0 conference and said I’d need them tomorrow. Hmm, was...
Dream: Google’s “Did You Mean” Meets Kanye West
It’s not real. But I sure wish it were, Google going all Kanye West on people searching for Taylor Swift. In the mockup above you can see...
April Fools’ Day 2009: Google CADIE & More From Search Industry
It is days like this I dread as a reporter. Today is April Fools Day, and you need to be on the lookout for what is real news and what is fake...
April Fool’s: Google Lets Business Owners Take Control Of Plus Box
Mike Blumenthal has detailed on his blog how Google is now letting business owners provide the address information that’s mapped when a...
Microsoft’s $1 Million Guarantee Program To Win Searchers
Microsoft executives, worried that the plan to acquire Yahoo for an estimated $40 billion might not happen, have hatched an alternative plan...
High-Tech Christmas Cookies? Nah, Just A Google News Glitch
A reader spotted a pretty strange story in the Google News Sci/Tech area. Mixed alongside stories about AskEraser, the Space Shuttle launch, and...