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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Google's April Fools Jokes

Love 'em. They crack me up every year.

Personally, however, I think they should have done one like they did last year. CADIE pretty much spread across every site so it was much more fluid. For example, Gmail is still Gmail, not Tmail. Also, the Gmail missing vowels is kind of flawed; it only misses vowels on the sign-in page; the rest of it is completely full of vowels. (A picture is attached for proof, not that you need any :P). Also, by making one overarching joke, it's so much easier to spread through many sites instead of trying to make a new joke for every one; CADIE was supposedly able to make Chrome appear in 3D, finish your documents for you, code normal text (although that was a complete fail :P), send out emails for you, see underwater, and so much more. However, they didn't need a new entity for every one. Instead, they used the CADIE idea throughout. I would love to see something like that next year, if not exactly a AI, at least something that would span the whole world of Google.

Otherwise, it was awesome. Go Google! :D