Did you miss this year’s April Fool’s joke from Google and maybe haven’t seen some of the previous years’ jokes?
Well, here are the links to this year’s joke and previous Google April Fool’s Jokes from Google from 2000 until 2007
Have fun!
2007 Google TiSP Note: This page was posted by Google for April Fool’s Day – 2007 – Quote from Google’s April Fool’s Page: “Sign up for our free in-home wireless broadband service… Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for?… Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and we’ll send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle, wireless router and installation CD.”
2006 Google Romance Note: This page was posted by Google for April Fool’s Day – 2006 – Quote from Google’s April Fool’s Page: “Pin All Your Romantic Hopes on Google… When you think about it, love is just another search problem. And we’ve thought about it. A lot. Google Romanceâ„¢ is our solution… Google Romance is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Searchâ„¢, get back search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we’ll send you both on a Contextual DateTM, which we’ll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you’re looking for.”
2005 Google Gulp Note: This page was posted by Google for April Fool’s Day – 2005 – Quote from Google’s April Fool’s Page: “Quench your thirst for knowledge… At Google our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information’s usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who’s using it. That’s why we’re pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)â„¢ with Auto-Drinkâ„¢ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of “smart drinks” designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.”
2004 Google Job Opportunities Note: This page was posted by Google for April Fool’s Day – 2004 – Quote from Google’s April Fool’s Page: “Google Copernicus Center is hiring… Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. This unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen.”
I’ve included Gmail as it seems Google took advantage of the buzz surrounding their April Fool’s Day jokes of previous years to gain extra publicity for their 2004 GMAIL launch. They followed up in 2005 by choosing April 1st to announce the increase in Gmail online storage to 2gigabytes. . 2004 Google Launches Gmail Note: This page was posted by Google for April Fool’s Day – 2004 – Quote from Google’s April Fool’s Page: “Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail… User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to Create Search-Based Webmail… Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; “Heck, Yeah,” Say Google Founders… MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 1, 2004 UTC – Amidst rampant media speculation, Google Inc. today announced it is testing a preview release of Gmail – a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email. Per user.”
2002 Pigeon Rank Note: This page was posted by Google for April Fool’s Day – 2002 – Quote from Google’s April Fool’s Page: “The technology behind Google’s great results… As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google’s search technology is PigeonRankâ„¢, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.”
2000 MentalPlex Note: This page was posted by Google for April Fool’s Day – 2000 – Quote from Google’s April Fool’s Page: “New! Search smarter and faster with Google’s MentalPlexTM… Instructions:… Remove hat and glasses… Peer into MentalPlex circle. DO NOT MOVE YOUR HEAD… Project mental image of what you want to find… Click or visualize clicking within the MentalPlex circle… See our FAQ and illustrations for correct usage.”
