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Topic: April Fools' Day
Twitter: Edit button coming (but you’ll have to pay to get it)
Twitter says it's been working on a feature that will allow users to edit tweets. The catch: it will only be available to Twitter Blue users.
Autobots, roll out! Microsoft launches new Automotive Ads beta and FLOC trials begin; Thursday’s daily brief
Plus, Instagram engagement remains flat for brands
Google’s latest Maps and GMB features up the ante for competing platforms; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, Neeva is in beta testing and Twitter's rumored community page feature.
SearchCap: SEO angles, mobile conversions & April Fools’ Day pranks
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: April Fools’ Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the weekendApr 2, 2018 by Barry Schwartz April Fools’ Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the weekend […]
April Fools’ Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the weekend
April Fools' Day 2018: Google, Amazon & more have fun over the weekend
SearchCap: April Fools, Bing Ads Tools & Yahoo/Bing Ads Grow
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: Q1 US Paid Search Growth Strongest In 3 Years Yahoo Bing Network gains share for third straight quarter. April Fools’ 2015 For the Search World: From Super Smart Google Panda […]
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.
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 Day!
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.
New Google Easter Egg For SEO Geeks: Server Status 418, I’m A Teapot
Google has a new easter egg, mostly designed for server geeks and SEO geeks, at google.com/teapot. The page itself serves up an 418 response code, which is a server status code, named “I’m a teapot.” The 418 code itself was an April Fools Joke from 1998 and is not meant to be implemented or be […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads Releases Targeting Updates For Bing Ads Express Bing Ads today announced several updates for its small business solution, Bing Ads Express. This is the first big series of updates […]
No Joke: Google Maps Brings Back “Search Nearby” Feature
You’re going to hear a lot of rejoicing when this news spreads: Google has returned the “search nearby” feature to Google Maps. #celebrate!!! Amidst all of today’s Google April Fools’ joke announcements, the company tweeted the feature’s resurrection earlier today. After doing a search on Google Maps, you can click again in the search box […]
Google’s Matt Cutts April Fools Video: No We Won’t Stop Changing; While Shirt Constantly Changes
If you didn’t have enough April Fools day fun today, here is one more for you. In today’s video from Matt Cutts, Matt answered a real question from Dave in the UK, who asked, “When will Google stop updating its search results?” The answer was never! And to prove his point, Matt animated his shirt […]
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 and Google+ David Hasselhoff photobombs. Not wanting Google to be the only one having all the April Fools fun, a number of other companies have released their own April 1st shenanigans. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 31, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Marin Launches Context Connect, Says Retailer Impressions Surged During Polar Vortex As the brutal Polar Vortex weather system bore down on much of the U.S. this winter, consumers apparently hunkered down […]
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 takes April 1st more seriously than Google, as we’ve been covering for years now. So what about this year’s April Fools’ Day antics? Let’s have a look. Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge It […]
Search In Pics: Brin’s Pink Bat Tesla, Google Self Driving Lexus & eTown Awards
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: How To Manage PPC Closely To A Budget A few weeks ago, at SMX West in San Jose, George Michie of RKG, was talking about the challenges of managing enterprise-level PPC […]
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 in one of the two gags that it just announced via separate blog posts. Bing Basic On its main search blog, Bing has an esoteric blog post that talks about “Bing […]
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 Fools’ Day gags. For at least a day, the company has announced that it’s now the “handwritten knowledge engine.” Ask it any question, and Wolfram Alpha shows results that look […]
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 nobody else on the Web takes the tradition of pranks and jokes as seriously as Google does — just see our coverage from the last few April Fool’s Days for proof: Google’s Gags […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 2, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Maps Traffic Estimates Even For Many Roads Any person who knows their neighborhood well, knows which streets to avoid when driving around town. But for those who are just visiting […]
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 do the same again right now, because Google has tried to top itself with another round of April Fool’s Day jokes that pretty well span the globe […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 19, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Dutch Agency Orders Google To Remove Data About Citizens’ WiFi Routers Dutch data officials have ordered Google to give the country’s residents a way to remove data that Google has about […]
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 joke is actually real, as I found out Monday when my friendly mailman visited Casa McGee. Much to my surprise, and probably to the mailman’s curiosity, there was a non-descript […]
Funny: Search For “Tilt” On Google
Go to your iPhone or Android phone and search for the word [tilt] using Google. The search results displayed will all results at a slight tilt to the right. Our understanding from Google is that this is an April Fools joke that’s still running. Here is a picture on the iPhone (it does the same […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Acquisition Marketers And The SEO ROI Dilemma After over 12 years practicing the art of SEO, and selling SEO services to clients, I thought the industry had reached a stage of […]
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 Day. The April Fools joke begins with a page explaining that Google has conducted research into various fonts and found through eye tracking that Comic Sans beats other fonts: Comic Sans For […]
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. Hiring autocompleters? YouTube 1911? Gmail Motion? Chromercise? Ding, ding, ding and ding. Game over. If you’re planning any big pranks tomorrow, skip it. Below, what’s out there now — and a […]
Live Blogging The “Google Instant” Press Event & How To Watch Live
Google’s holding a highly anticipated “can’t miss” press event today. The news? Perhaps the new results-as-you-type your search feature that started showing today. Perhaps something else. We’ll know at 9:30am Pacific Time today, when the event gets underway. Stay tuned for live blogging. UPDATE: For more, see our article, Google Instant: The Complete User’s Guide. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Testing Live Video Stream In Street View According to the Qualite Search Marketing blog, Google has been testing live YouTube video in Google Street View maps in Norway. This is […]
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 […]
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 Google Maps going 3D? Or maybe an April Fool’s joke? But helping my son with his science project tonight, I came across a possible answer — a new 3D […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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 news. Below, a roundup of some of the April Fools hoaxes from the search industry, starting with Google. With Google, it all starts […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 20, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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 “plus box” is opened in search results associated with their listings. Previously Google determined what address/mapping data to show in the plus box, which resulted in errors on many occasions according to Mike. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
April Fools 2008 : The Search Industry’s Recap
Happy April Fools Day! April Fools can be a fun but scary day for news reporters like myself. On one hand, we get to make up stories and fool people into thinking they are real. On the other hand, we have to determine which news stories are real and which are fake and not be […]