«Google»: «On the first of April, I is not easy to make people laugh"

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This is a story about April fools pranks company «Google»

Perhaps it is the company «Google» in the now distant 2000 and engendered a new tradition of April Fools jokes on the Internet. Here we have collected all the amazing drawings of «Google» beginning with the founding of the company until today. 

2000

  • April 1, "Google" announces the development of a striking new feature called "MentalPlex ", which allows you to read the minds of search engine users, if he will present in his mind he desired search result. At this point in the Silicon Valley, and a new tradition of April Fools jokes. 

2001

  • Now use "Google" can be in the language " Swedish Chef ". 

2002

  • April 1 corporation «Google» informs that its search results are selected mechanism pigeons. 

2004

  • The company «Google» announced its decision to open a research center on the moon called «Googlunaplex». 

2005

  • This time April Fool's joke of «Google» is about the incredible beverage that can easily improve your mental abilities, and will allow you a much more efficient use of the search results «Goolge». 

2006

  • 1 April under the slogan "Choosing a partner - a problem of search engines' company« Google »launched a project" Google Romance ". 

2007

  • The first was in April 2007 for «Google» very busy day. First, in the New York office of the lost (but later found) real snake . Second, the company introduced the world's latest technology toilet ISP " TiSP ". Finally, - third, the company introduced the present paper archive of letters «Gmail». 

2008

  • This year was not too lazy and put up their users up to 16 draws in the first of April, in the various offices. Among them were such as drawings, start service " AdSense"to talk about, as well as the announcement made ​​personally by Sir Richard Branson on the establishment of a new airline" Virgle ". worthy of special attention, perhaps the most April Fool's joke this year, drawing with reference to« YouTube . "On this day, all users by following links on absolutely any video, taken to a page with a clip of Rick Astley . 

2009

  • On April the company announced the launch of a cognitive heuristic distributed system called " Cadie ". According to the developers themselves, their creation for the whole day is spent studying the various services of the company« Google », and then self-destruct. 

2010

  • This time, the company «Google» renamed " Topeka ", in response to the drastic steps residents located in the state of Kansas - Topeka, who went and renamed the city in« Google », that would connect to an experimental fiber-optic network.  

2011

  • This year the company «Google» said the introduction of a mailer «Gmail» you can manage your mailbox with your body movements, which the company called "Gmail Motion " . Designers of the new features mentioned that should be very careful when using «Gmail Motion» as one extra movement may delete all your emails. However, on April 1, vacancies company «Google» replenished with a very unusual profession. The company was looking for a specialist in autocomplete forms.The text was about the job: "If you love helping people, and often ends with the friends, and even if you are, most importantly, very quickly, then this position is for you. And do not waste your time, because most likely, tomorrow this free job search «Google» will not be. " 

2012

  • This year the company «Google» decided to present multi-tasking , which will increase the efficiency of the browser «Chrome». Everybody knows that working in the browser people use, unfortunately only one hand. That's exactly the problem of developers «Google» and found a solution by offering a new multitasking«Chrome», which allows the user to surf the sites, using both hands, by connecting to the computer of two computer mice , each of which will be responsible for a separate cursor on monitor. 

  • Also, on this day the company has demonstrated a working version of the service«Google Maps» optimized specifically for the screen 8-bit consoles «Nintendo».Especially for them, maps are displayed in the style of the first games «Simcity» (video ). 
  • The company «Google» presented autonomous racing car , which does not need a driver. Even the National Association for stock car racing (NASCAR) took part in the April fools pranks, and right on its website published the video with the presentation of the new "guglomobilya", where the role of test pilot got himself one of the company's founders Sergey Brin. 
  • The company has announced that beginning attached to the head thousands of kangaroo special cameras to expand the ground show the service «Street View».  

  • Especially for the postal service «Gmail» developers from «Google» presented a new service " Gmail Tap ", which promises to allow an accelerated write letters using only two buttons. The text will be dialed using Morse code ( video ).

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