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April Fools’ Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the weekend

April Fools' Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 2, 2018 at 2:20 pm ET

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....

Amy Gesenhues | Apr 1, 2015 at 12:11 pm ET

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...

Barry Schwartz | Mar 31, 2015 at 9:04 pm ET

 

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....

Amy Gesenhues | Mar 31, 2015 at 12:51 pm ET

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...

Amy Gesenhues | Apr 1, 2014 at 11:51 am ET

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...

Matt McGee | Mar 31, 2014 at 2:46 pm ET

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...

Matt McGee | Apr 1, 2013 at 4:21 am ET

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...

Matt McGee | Apr 1, 2013 at 2:13 am ET

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...

Matt McGee | Mar 31, 2013 at 3:17 pm ET

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...

Matt McGee | Apr 1, 2012 at 3:37 am ET

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...

Matt McGee | Apr 19, 2011 at 1:50 am ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Apr 1, 2011 at 12:28 pm ET

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....

Matt McGee | Apr 1, 2011 at 2:35 am ET

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...

Search Engine Land | Mar 31, 2011 at 8:08 pm ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Apr 1, 2010 at 12:30 am ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Sep 19, 2009 at 2:42 pm ET

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...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 1, 2009 at 9:40 am ET

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...

Greg Sterling | Apr 2, 2008 at 10:05 am ET

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...

Danny Sullivan | Apr 1, 2008 at 6:49 am ET

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...

Barry Schwartz | Dec 12, 2007 at 9:55 am ET
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