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April 1st Predictions?

DPic [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, February 26, 2009
15 years ago4,978 views

I know it's a bit early for this but whatever. April first is April Fool's Day and also GMail's birthday so:

1. What do you predict of serious nature from Google, if anything?
2. An April Fool's joke would be hard to predict (have any of them been predicted before?), so what do you think would be a funny to see?

I'm just going to answer the first one with GrandCentral 2. I hope so hard for this to come out by then that i'm going to make it a prediction. It better happen or i will be a sad panda (unless of course they do something more awesomer).

Maybe they'll knowck something off of our Google 2009 Wishlists?
http://pinstack.blogspot.com/2009/01/2009-wishlist-for-google.html
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/147637.html

JEShack [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Just give me Chrome extensions....that's it and so long Firefox... :]

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

"Google Search Shuts Down Because of Lack of User Base and Decline in Revenue"

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

"Gmail out of beta" would be a good April Fools Joke.

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

A few thoughts:

1) Google Atlantis with Street View capability
2) Google Chrome officially released for Mac & Linux
3) Google Music (Think YouTube + iTunes partnership)
4) Google Wifi Network

hebbet [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Google announce the divorce of Gmail and Beta after 5 years happy and lovely marriage

[put at-character here] JEShack: Chrome will get addons before the end of may.

mbegin [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I think GrandCentral will relaunch as hello.com and Gmail will leave beta..........wait, did I already say that?

J/K

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/150953.html

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I'm thinking Hello for GrandCentral will probably happen too... Google Hello?

JEShack [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Hello for Grandcentral? Great and it really fitted to a telephony service.

* Search for the results like it is 2011 (besides Google allowed us to search back in time like it was 2001). The results will be like what Wikipedia had depicted such as:
On January 1, 2011: Estonia adopted Euro; or on March 18: NASA's spacecraft was able to arrived in orbit around Mercury.
more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011

* Most of the news in News Search are April pranks: such as spaghetti trees of BBC, Tower of Pisa had fallen

* Google's search calculator will change the value of pi into 3.141999 (accdg to Biblical value)

* Chrome to IE: as about:ie :: about:crash

* Orkut will out of beta. Really?

:]

mbegin [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

How about a GDrive release??

Arie [PersonRank 3]

15 years ago #

hummm.. what is April 1st this year?

:)

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]Arie

I think it's sometime in late March this year, around the 27th or 28th, I can't really remember...

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]James: it's on March 32nd this year.

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Sorry, yeah Roger is right, I just searched it on Live.com and it says March 32nd too.

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

I'm not expecting anything serious.
Possible Joke: All Google products (re?)enter alpha status ;)

Josue R. [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

maybe something like "Google Space" services ? (maybe they may want to promote in a slly way the exploration/tourism of Space travel.)

Luca [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[Moved from "Any suggestion for famous google April 1 ?" – Tony]

what do you think it's coming , this year?
some "out of beta" ?
Google Drive?
voice for all ?

or...

Luka [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Gmail labs for europe :)

KMB [PersonRank 7]

15 years ago #

- Google Drive?
- PHP or Java on AppEngine?
- Macro in Google Docs?
- Adsense and Feedburner in Google Sites?
- More OpenId and FriendConnect especially with Google Apps/Sites?
- Google Groups closing in favor of Google Apps Groups and Google Sites?

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

You're not even close! All will be revealed in a few days:

"April Fools Gags for 2009"
http://uclue.com/?xq=2831

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Roger! You guys got the deal again this year?

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