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Google Has Fooled Its Users in a Variety of Ways

Google celebrated the Fool’s day on April 1 with a range of fake products and services promoted online. Among the products offered were such innovations as Really Advanced Search, Kangaroo Camera Task Force, Interplanetary Analytics, Rotary Phones Site Optimization, Chrome Multitasking Extension and Google, Now With More Fiber, Mayors Like the Idea.


Photo: Google’s Interplanetary Reports sneak preview, from analytics.blogspot.fr

Really Advanced Search offers users to find the information they need using “all these words”, “any of these words”, “words almost but not entirely like” etc. Google also promised to take into account gerund but only on Tuesdays.

Kangaroo Camera Task Force meant that more than a thousand Big Red kangaroos would be equipped with a 360-degree head camera that will automatically capture images when the animals are on the move. The idea of this ‘project’ was to give users an ability “to roam the vast Australian continent”.

Interplanetary Analytics offered a product of the future for brands giving them an opportunity to search for target audiences beyond Earth. “For example, if you had a chain of taco stands and noticed many users visiting your website from the Mars outpost, well, that might help you make a business case to begin expanding your business to serve Mars colonists”, says Google’s blog, where a ‘sneak preview’ of the service was announced.

Google’s YouTube also rolled out its faux video, offering fans all its content in DVD form. On the YouTube Blog, director of DVD product management Chet Flanagan wrote:

“Loved a video so much that liking it, favoriting it, sharing it and even subscribing to the channel wasn’t enough? Just had to hold it in your grasp and never ever let it go? We know the feeling, so today we’re making The YouTube Collection available for you in a new holdable version: DVD. A direct result of your feedback and demand, The YouTube Collection is a first of its kind offering in web video.”

Last month, Google celebrated 18 years of internet with the Google Project Re:Brief.