Google Gets Goofy on April Fools Day

Posted on April 1, 2008

If you haven’t looked at your calendar today, it’s April Fools Day. Last year Google posted some really funny April Fools jokes; one being Gmail Paper where you can have your archive snail mailed and the other being Google TiSP which was free in-home wireless broadband that was routed through your toilet.

I am usually fairly enamored with what Google does but today’s jokes just don’t compare with last years. Gmail Custom Time is an overused joke messing with time stamps. Of the two gDay with MATE, search tomorrow’s web, today! is probably the most humorous but neither is as believable as Gmail Paper. Come on Google, you can do it. Give us some real zingers again next year. I’m counting on you.

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5 Responses to “Google Gets Goofy on April Fools Day”

Scott on April 1st, 2008 7:15 am

Hey Phil,

Check out:

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

SB
Phil on April 1st, 2008 7:48 am

Scott,

OK I stand corrected. Google did it again. I love it. Still, I thought last years Gmail Paper was the most cleaver in terms of fooling folks. Thanks for pointing it out.
Scott on April 1st, 2008 9:41 am

I think they are planting them across multiple apps this year which is a clever twist.

I imagine it’s difficult to sustain something like this when everyone is looking for it - I know Google was the first site I visited this am to see what they were up to.

I agree, the paper one was particularly good

SB
Scholarship blog on April 6th, 2008 1:59 am

I remember that “free in-home wireless broadband that was routed through your toilet” stuff and reading it for the second here makes me laugh again! I didn’t know that it was just a joke when it reached my mail before and I spent whole night thinking how could that be possible…silly me
Phil on April 6th, 2008 8:35 am

Yep, that’s what makes it such a hillarious post. They had a couple that were so well done it was easy to believe ‘em.