Google Hoaxes (April Fool) for year 2010 :
Snippet from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes#2010
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Nuclear Google
Apparent Google Jail Page
Google Translate for Animals
Google Street View available in Anachrome 3D
When using Google Street View you can change the view to display (faux?) anachrome 3D images. It can be enabled by clicking on the orange Street View icon, now depicting a man that is wearing Red/Cyan glasses. The man seems happy when wearing the glasses, unhappy when he just has them on his head. NOT A HOAX, actually works.
Google Maps OCCA
Google Australia changed directions for to use Australian Slang terms in the direction results. Examples of the altered directions include “You need to go south towards [street name] mate”, “Hang a right when you get to [street name]”, “Chuck a left when you get to [street name]”, “Ya gotta take the turn off onta [street name]” and saying “Ya might have to cough up some cash along here” to indicate toll booths.
Search results generated in different times
Google’s search results page displayed the time taken to load the results in different units than seconds; for example microfortnights, microweeks, nanocenturies, epochs, femtogalactic years, parsecs, skiddo, jiffies, shakes of a lamb’s tail, gigawatts, hertz, Planck times, centons, warp factors and “times the velocity of an unladen swallow”.
Youtube logo made out of ASCII art
The logo of YouTube was changed to an ASCII-style one made out of 1s.
YouTube videos with ASCII art
The Youtube logo is a reference to all the videos having a new quality setting, namely “TEXTp”. According to a notice underneath the videos, viewing the video with this quality setting enabled allows YouTube to save one US dollar ($1) per second on bandwidth costs. The notice also remarks on the source of this new “feature”, wishing the reader a happy April Fool’s Day.
April Fools 2010 – Animal Translator BETA
For April Fools day 2010, Google placed a link on the main page, advertising a new Google Animal Translator service to add to their Language Translator service. Clicking the link would take you to a page advertising an app for Android phones for the translator, with the tagline being “Bridging the gap between animals and humans”.
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