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Google’s April 1st Prank Lampoons Social Media
By Dave Peterson | April 1, 2009
Well, it’s April 1st, and you know what that means: Anything you read on the Internet today may or may not be a complete lie. Which makes it pretty much like any other day on the web, actually. However, in an effort to spare readers the hassle of trying to determine whether any given gadget news is real or a complete fake, I’ll point you to something with a spotless track record of April Foolishness: Google.
For those who haven’t been aware, every year Google does some hoax page or product linked from their main search page. Previous years have involved page ranking, a Google-branded drink, and a dating service. This Wikipedia page has the whole rundown. This year, Google has both a full web page prank and a mobile one, with different, but linked jokes. To get the full effect, you’ll need to hit Google from both your computer and your phone. The web version centers on a amusingly designed blog page run supposedly by a Google artificial intelligence project called CADIE. CADIE also has a YouTube channel. The phone version is a CADIE-powered Brain Search.
At this point, we can all breathe a sigh of relief and go back to knowing that tomorrow everything we read on the web will be absolutely true. Or not.
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