April Fool's Day Special Issue: A Big Collection of Google's April Fool's Jokes over Ten Years

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On this year's April Fool's Day, Google launched a time-travel search, claiming it would take you through time and space, allowing you to reach your desired time and place with an immersive experience. Google introduced this new technology as follows: In principle, time-travel search uses the built-in gravitational field distortion function of the search engine, based on keyword hyperspace penetration technology, decomposing the searcher's entire electromagnetic characteristics, sending them at a lower frequency to the target time-space for recombination and matching, enabling the searcher's mind to travel across time and space and obtain information from the target time-space.

According to foreign media reports, every Western April Fool's Day, Google never forgets to play a prank. Although the new services launched on this day are just jokes for April Fool's Day, they are still highly entertaining and unforgettable.

Below is a collection of new services launched by Google over the years on April Fool's Day:

1. MentalPlex service launched in 2000

In 2000, Google announced that the MentalPlex service could scan users' brainwave activity. When users remove their hats and glasses, focus on the vortex, and think about what they want to search for, clicking on the vortex completes the search.

2. Pigeon (Pigeon) ranking launched in 2002

In 2002, Google's April Fool's Day joke, Pigeon ranking, showed that using a pecking order system of specially trained domestic pigeons, Google's search function works just as well. Google claimed that these pigeons rank the most popular search results by pecking at the best match data. The result with the most pecks is determined to be the most popular search result.

3. Announcement of hiring moon-based staff in 2004

In 2004, Google announced on April Fool's Day that it would hire employees to work on the moon. In the recruitment notice at the time, Google wrote that this rare opportunity would only be available to high-quality talents willing to relocate. This person must have excellent physical fitness, etc.

4. Launch of Google Gulp beverage in 2005

In 2005, Google claimed to have extended its reach into the food industry and announced the launch of the trial version of the GoogleGulp beverage. This beverage came in four flavors, including monosodium glutamate type, sugar-free type, and carotene type. It was said that the invention of Gulp came from a vice manager of operations at Google, who used his personal time to conduct botanical research in the subtropical rainforest at the border between Bolivia and Peru, collecting samples of certain epiphytic plants, and eventually discovering the functional ingredients now used in the Gulp beverage in Google's laboratory.

5. Launch of Google Romance service in 2006

In 2006, Google announced on April Fool's Day that it would launch the Google Romance service. This service provided users with a soul-matching service and offered free dating services to those who agreed to receive semantically relevant ads during their dates. Google Romance users who found each other through soul-matching searches could choose a related date, allowing users to enjoy a romantic night for free. As a trade-off, users had to watch relevant ads throughout the date. Google CEO Eric Schmidt pointed out in a slide note that internal reports believed that related dating would become a huge market, like a cash-producing cow.

6. Launch of TiSP service in 2007

On April 1, 2007, Google, known for its creative pranks on April Fool's Day, launched the innovative Google TISP service. TISP is a TiSP home network technology aimed at families. By wearing gloves provided by Google, inserting them into the toilet, and flushing fiber optics into the sewer using the Google GFlush system, connecting an AP at home allows you to enjoy wireless broadband (installing the nearest internet connection node in the underground sewage system).

7. Launch of gDay service in 2008

In 2008, Google launched a new feature called gDay on April Fool's Day. Using this feature, Google could search the future internet. In other words, users don't have to wait for certain content to be created; they can search for it before it's even created. Google stated at the time that gDay isn't all-powerful. Using gDay, users can only search for internet content 24 hours into the future. Why? Because Google found that searching beyond 24 hours has low accuracy. According to Google, the accuracy of using gDay for searches can reach 75% to 95%.

8. Launch of 3D Google Chrome in 2009

April Fool's Day in 2009 wasn't so pleasant. Not long before, Google had announced layoffs of hundreds of people to cut company expenses during the economic recession. However, on that year's April Fool's Day, Google not only announced the launch of 3D Google Chrome but also announced that Google Brain Search, based on CADIE technology, could access information from users' brains.

9. Announcement of renaming to Topeka Inc in 2010

On April Fool's Day in 2010, Google announced that it would rename itself Topeka. In a statement issued under the name of CEO Eric Schmidt, it was stated that the mayor of Topeka, the capital of Kansas, USA, announced last month that Topeka would change its name to Google, surprising the world. We have always wondered how to achieve such an exchange. Now we are happy to announce that starting at 1:00 AM on April 1 (Central Daylight Time in the US, 1:00 PM Beijing Time on April 1), Google has officially changed our name to Topeka. Google mentioned at the time that this decision was not made lightly; after all, our old name had significant brand assets. But the more we browsed the (former) Topeka municipal website, the more we felt a sense of closeness to this wonderful city near the Great Plains.

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