April Fools 2010 From Google & Others

Today is a worst/best day for journalists or bloggers, depending on your worldview: April Fools Day. Many technology companies come out and try to fool people with fake or funny news. Below is a collection of, what appears to be, April Fools Day hoaxes from Google and other search related companies for the day. I do hope to continue to update it throughout the day.

• Google changed its name to Topeka today after the city in Kansas changed their name from Topeka to Google.
• Google Docs let’s you upload anything, really, anything you want, including your sofa
• Google AJAX let’s you define evil API requests from legit ones with the &evil=true parameter
• Google Mobile let’s you find where I am.
• Google Maps does 3D street views. Go to the maps, and go down to a street level and you will be able to see the man with 3D glasses.
• Google Wave notifies you via human notification
• YouTube lets you watch videos in text only mode.
• Google building a nuclear project according to TechCrunch
• Google Books go 3D
• Google gets into building jails for municipalities
• Google launches Google Translate for Animals
• Google Maps Australia does Australian speaking directions
• Google voice does standard voicemail capabilities
• Google bought ProBlogger
• Google’s search results summary bar shows results in something else then seconds (try it with any Google search)
• Some Google Japan joke
• The Search Engine Roundtable is now just SE Roundtable and sells tables
• Google launched Google Romance
• I assume this is a joke, our very own Greg Sterling is joining Google
• Gmail vowel outage
• Picasa’s life size image view
• Google Reader’s ReaderAdvantage miles program
• Google Analytics gives up all web metrics in exchange for just tracking hits
• Google has launched the Kaffein update
• Google Chrome extension to unmute the web
• Google AdSense adds wingdings font to the ads

More to come….