Google's April Fool's Day 2008

 

Google didn’t stop after the Virgle hoax and delivered more hoaxes.

Google China launches “A tiger, n-Wu” a social search engine

Use meat search ways of interpreting human search "A tiger, n-Wu", which is on the distant quiz on the "human search," explained one Googler. Today would like to come back to this project, the most interesting is the different "types" Googler to warm to what they see as "human search," Yansigefeng the engineers, the pursuit of perfect love UI designers and the write poems Googler.”

Google Korea launches SATURI a translation service.

“Instead of utilizing technology to provide a service that Google Korea's R & D center is a combination of metrics for dialect translation systems developed by its current service through the Google translation. For example, if you want to translate the dialect Jeolla Province was put into sentences, sentences that the document search and translated into various dialects, dialect retrieved documents are converted back Jeolla Province will be provided to the user, Google lets you translate the dialect of the local dialect to another did not even know you can retrieve all the documents without any inconvenience.”

Google Japan launched a special Universal Search result for Dajare.

Google is "to organize the world's information to people around the world that can be used to access" in order to fulfill its mission and started PigeonRank night working on the development of the technology. In particular, the R & D Center in Tokyo, the early "laughter" especially "DAJARE" highly communicative function with a focus on the research and development done'm here.

Google Australia launched gDay, a new service that lets you search today the web pages published tomorrow.

“Using MATE’s™ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future. Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now.”

Did you notice the gDay logo?

Also from Google Australia the Gmail Custom Time service.

"Just click Set custom time from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient's inbox."

Google Book Search launched a new feature they capture the smell of books.

“Today I'm pleased to let you know that we've made some headway with one type of volume we've struggled with in the past: books employing scratch-and-sniff technology. Using special equipment and tricky JavaScript, we're now able to capture some of the smells during the scanning process and then embed them in your web browser when you preview these titles in Google Book Search.”

This are just a few hoaxes and there are many more.