Did you managed to find easter eggs this year ?

Not yet, expect that Google will place the first one online tonight for Australia and maybe China. But due to the recent conflict maybe they skip China this year.

The real big Google joke will come tomorrow.

I was just coming here to post that we haven't had a speculative thread this year about what they might be like usual! One step ahead of me Luka :D

I hope this year can be as good as CASSIE last year but a little more easy to fool regular users, last year CASSIE was good but it wouldn't have fooled ordinary people because they wouldn't have understood what it was about I'm guessing, and those who would have gotten the jokes would have waiting to see what Google's April fools joke would be...

It's already April 1st in Australia. Go to google.com.au and click on "Language Tools". Set the "From" language to Greek and the "Into" language to English.

Copy and paste the following word into the text box and click "Translate" to see the easter egg.

The word is: εύπιστος

Roger, I was about to post a thing like that here, I love you :-D

<<and maybe China. But due to the recent conflict maybe they skip China this year.>>

I hope their joke for China is bowing down to government censorship and making a really big political joke that will piss them off hardcore.

http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/2010/04/google.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GoogleJapanBlog+(Google+Japan+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Roger, i saw that coming-- haha. Much to complicated and hidden for an easter egg! That said, well played xD

Google Maps 3D Streetview
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_9Q0q2eaQVJU/S7N-QQ37kwI/AAAAAAAAAaA/27p8qZaOFd4/s576/Capture.PNG

Animal Voice Search – Google Japan
http://www.youtube.com/v/irlqbh_pnNQ

Google Maps 3D Streetview, I'm not seeing it yet.

Or dit you make that yourself :-)

Damn you Roger!

Did anyone else notice when they went to Google Australia the text for "Australia" seemed to be different?
http://i42.tinypic.com/ru314x.png

That's normal

Maps Just Got OCCA
http://google-au.blogspot.com/2010/04/maps-just-got-occa.html

http://www.google.org.cn/posts/street-view-in-3d.html

Street view 3D in china

OCCA really works on Google Maps Australia, lol.

http://www.google.co.jp/intl/ja/landing/shiritori/

OCCA is very well done:

http://i39.tinypic.com/f3i1ao.png

Hey, they forgot that all road directions in Australia end with the phrase "You can't miss it!"

I can't see Google Maps 3D. If you want to see Google Maps 3D now you have to switch the time on your computer to April first. Then it refresh an it comes availible.

Google goes nuclear : http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/31/exclusive-google-to-go-nuclear

http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/plant.jpg

If you want to follow the april fools as they are available, we post and update this page @ zorgloob :

http://www.zorgloob.com/2010-03/google-aime-lichtyologie/

Google.org blog answers Techcrunch post! http://blog.google.org/2010/03/gooey-googley-energy.html

Meta April Fool

http://blogoscoped.fr
(c) 2010 – Blogoscoped, Inc.

There is a great April fool from Google Sightseeing:
http://googlesightseeing.com/2010/04/01/secret-feature-lets-users-unblur-street-view-photos/

Youtube april fool (amazing use of libcaca)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDe4v318f64&feature=related&textp=fool

[autoembedding removed ~ TOMHTML]

Open the link to work, or try adding &textp=fool after a youtube link

They have changed the search results page load info into various time.
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9Q0q2eaQVJU/S7P5ersYycI/AAAAAAAAAag/rIFg8nO5by0/Capture.PNG

like microweeks, parsecs, nanocenturies, centons and more.

Google UK's Translate for Animals (Android App)
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/

Wikipedia does April Fool's too, although I find it a bit tasteless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Google Wave notification feature.

I tried Street View with 3D glasses but I'm not too convinced yet...

Try out new Google Wave wave notifications!
http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2010/03/try-out-new-google-wave-wave.html

Store anything in Google Docs. Yes, anything, like your car keys, your cat, etc.

Sign up for beta test here.
   http://www.google.com/google-d-s/promos/storage.html

This year's joke: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/03/upload-and-store-anything-in-cloud-with.html

Better link: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/promos/storage.html

Google Books is also in 3D
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9Q0q2eaQVJU/S7QdwM9Vn4I/AAAAAAAAAbA/cWdiq7Q-rjY/s912/Capture.PNG

I have decided to make an even larger fortune than I already have, by skipping council rates. I'm going to move into the Google Docs storage unit. I spend all my time using Google services like Gmail, Blogger, Earth, Youtube, Search and Talk anyway, so why not live there?
At $0.10 per kg, it'll only cost $4.85 to store myself. That's a lot cheaper than the cost of owning a house.

Google Discovery (brazilian blog about Google) was acquired by Google

http://googlediscovery.com/google-acquisition.html

http://googlediscovery.com/logo_discovery.png

Results 1 – 10 of about 206,000 for blogoscoped. (23.00 skidoo)
or
0.78e+43 Planck times
0.14 microfortnights
0.23 centibeats
1.21 gigawatts
0.67 times the velocity of an unladen swallow
0.28 microweeks
54.97 jiffies
at warp 8.38
0.10 nanocenturies
2.00 shakes of a lamb's tail
0.02 femtogalactic years
11.90 parsecs
1.58e-15 epochs

YouTube has an ASCII option for video quality and states it saves them $1 per second in bandwidth cost.

All google properties just went down for me... wonder if it is a joke gone bad... or an april fools attack.

http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/logo_april_fools-vfl157034.png

JEShack Results in: Jiffies, Microfortnights, Epochs, Planck times, Gigawatts, Nanocenturies, Parsecs, Centibeats, Femtogalactic years, Centons, At warp, Skidoo, Hertz, Times the velocity of an unladen swallow, Shakes of a lamb's tail and Microweeks.

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/03/3d-books-google-books-now-offers.html

Upload and store anything in the cloud with Google Docs
  
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:00 PM
In January, we added the ability to upload and store any file in Google Docs, and in response to your feedback, we increased the maximum file size to 1 GB a couple weeks later. Based on the overwhelming response to this feature, we're happy to announce a big update. Starting today, you can upload and store anything in Google Docs. With this change, you'll be able to store items in the cloud and access them from any computer – all you need is an Internet connection and a Google Account.

As with documents, spreadsheets, and files, you also share objects you've uploaded to Google Docs with anyone in the world. For example, do you ever wish you could CTRL+F your house keys or your TV remote? Store your keys, remotes, rail passes, and other objects you commonly lose with Google Docs, and you'll never have to worry about finding them again. Having trouble moving your piano from New York to California? Upload it from your home in New York, then download it once you're in California. Change your mind and want to share it with your friend in England instead? No problem. With one click you can have your piano delivered to anyone you choose, anywhere in the world.

With simple pricing at $0.10 per kg, along with free pickup and delivery from any location on the planet, it’s hard to pass up. To learn more about this new feature and how to join the beta test, head to our informational site. As always let us know what you think on the forums.

Google Implements Predictive Searching...
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/04/01/google-implements-predictive-searching

in uk
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/

Translate for Animals

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html

A different kind of company name

Google: did you mean "recursion"?... http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZYqYi4xigk/S7RDQ6RkAwI/AAAAAAAAFzA/KI5Uv1lC9Mc/s1600/topeka_photo_02.png

recursion is old.

yeah right!!!

http://www.google.com/search?q=anagram

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-annotations-gallery.html

Is this a april 1 joke? =)

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/standard_voicemail.html#

Evil bit
http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2010/03/helping-you-help-us-help-you.html

found this one (in German): Mc Googles
http://vossyline.blogspot.com/2010/04/mcgoogles.html
;-)

Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka.

(http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMKuf+%28Official+Google+Blog%29)

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/04/our-newest-mobile-search-feature-where.html

<<Well, I’m happy to announce that for those of you who turn to Google in search of, “where am I,” we finally have a better result. Starting today, just go to Google.com on your phone in the US, search for “where am I”, and wonder about your own whereabouts no more.>>

http://www.google.com/logos/topeka-hp.gif

Are there any pranks for TMail or Topeka Calendar yet?

Ah ah ah! Nice fool on Google Blog in Pollish
http://googlepolska.blogspot.com/2010/04/autostrady-google.html
(I haven't translated it yet :-P)

This is good. I'm from poland. We have a problem with holes in the roads. Google wants them to indicate on maps

Haha nice!

This is funny in the same post:))
"Due to data limitation, we can accommodate our servers, at the initial stage of a project beta of the new service will be available for the site of Krakow".

If you want to trick your other friends about storing everything into Google Docs, you can create your own form.

Just answer this form, and create one yourself :
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEx3d1BSR1Ntb0hvdEpJNkJvaUI2Z2c6MQ

Google UK has "Google Animal Translate"

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals

Not sure if April Fools related, Google Czech is hiring!! They are in need of assistant fax machine operator, floppy disc manipulator, file manager and internet specialist.

The requirements are damn funny.

http://google-cz.blogspot.com/2010/04/zbrusu-nove-pozice-v-prazskem-googlu.html

I think that if you have a blog, then it is what you need.
Tell people about something, someone is advertising, to somebody else for something else.
Personally, I think so.
Here I have a blog about my travels, but I can not share them with people, because somebody would write that this is spam.
   A hoster will also kick :)

Free in-home wireless broadband service
http://www.google.com/tisp/

Google tisp was april fool in 2007

This is not an advertising forum

ht tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50BBNZ-ejjU&textp=fool

This is my favourite TEXTp video, remove the space between ht and tp :P

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/04/1apr10googluj3btopeka.jpg

via engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/april-fools-day-roundup-let-me-topeka-that-for-you-edition/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/google_people_view/

"Google to digitize world+dog with People View"

Re: beussery's times in microseconds, were applicable, courtesy of WolframAlpha.

0.78e+43 Planck times = 420.5 ms
0.14 microfortnights = 169 ms
0.28 microweeks = 169 ms
54.97 jiffies = 549.7 ms (CS) or 1.8336 ns (Chemistry)
0.10 nano(centuries) = 315ms
0.02 femtogalactic years = 140ms

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=the+velocity+of+an+unladen+swallow

Google Acquires the Internal Revenue Service
http://www.pcworld.com/article/193100/article.html

[Thanks http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro]

<<The Google Annotations Gallery is an exciting new Java open source library that provides a rich set of annotations for developers to express themselves. Do you find the standard Java annotations dry and lackluster? Have you ever resorted to leaving messages to fellow developers with the @Deprecated annotation? Wouldn't you rather leave a @LOL or @Facepalm instead? If so, then this is the gallery for you.>>

http://code.google.com/p/gag/

[Via http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bl3kx/google_codes_april_fools_is_an_incredibly/]

The Gmail homepage has been devowelizd.
http://mail.google.com
https://mail.google.com/mail/help/images/logo_vowel_outage.gif

I like this more: http://pinoytutorial.com/lifebytes/april-fools-jokes-popular-april-fools-day-hoaxes/

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html

This is my favorite so far...

www.google.com/virgle

Google and Virgin have teamed up to make Mars an Open Source planet. Sign up to be a Virgle Pioneer!!! hahaha

oops. 2008. sorry.

I found the language under language tools for translation into a language called, "Elmer Fudd". Anyone familiar with this cartoon character's comical speech impediment will understand what Google does from there. :D Made me lol.

Its not a April 1st joke

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/04/unmuting-web-with-google-chrome.html

Yeah, Elmer Fudd has been there for a while.

My favorite is the search times.

1.02 times the velocity of an unladen swallow

My favorite is Street view in 3D

http://www.google.com/googlereader/reader-advantage.html

Chrome's April 1st joke!
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/04/unmuting-web-with-google-chrome.html

http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2010/04/posted-by-c.html

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/04/back-to-hits.html

Google voice standard voicemail http://www.google.com/googlevoice/standard_voicemail.html

click the "try it out" button

Lol: Google Introduces YouTube live video stream in Google Street View!

http://www.qualite.no/blogg/google-introduces-youtube-live-video-stream-in-google-street-view

That Google Chrome extension is really funny :-)

Awesome search tool.

http://lmgtfy.com/

Love their hurmor!

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/04/announcing-wingdings-as-new-font.html

I LOVE APRIL FOOLS lol and for reasons like all the pranks played around the net on google, wikipedia, funnyordie, collegehumor, youtube.. you name it and they have all played a prank on their readers and viewers today!!

if you missed them... check out this link that has a summary and pictures/videos of them all @ http://www.lionsdenu.com/april-fools-around-the-internet/

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YbURk67VlGk/S7TrTjscAGI/AAAAAAAABHk/doLjc4GLajg/s400/wingdings+1.png

http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/introducing-standard-voicemail-mode.html

Google Chrome sounds works on the following websites:

http://www.google.ca/
http://www.google.com.au/
http://www.google.com.my/
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/
lively.com
http://www.google.co.uk
http://news.google.com
http://www.bing.com/

And:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=scotland&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=seattle&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Chrome sounds seems to mostly work on every site I've been to.

- Typing on this form makes typewriter sounds
- Going from left to right by clicking on tabs plays like piano keys
- Closing tab makes breaking glass sound
- Opening extension settings plays technology (beeping) sounds
- Scrolling makes a laser-esc sound (don't know how else to describe it)
   – the longer the scroll the more intense the sound

If I find more sounds I'll post them. Interested to see other sounds everyone else finds too!

I laughed so hard when I seen TOPEKA instead of the usual name google. I had recently read that Topeka officials had "unofficially" changed the name of the city to Goodle for the month of March, which certainly helped a person to understand what this name change was about. This is too funny. Got to LOVE it. WTG google, I mean TOPEKA!

going to Chrom:Extensions plays a really annoying loud noise

Good night, Happy Fool's Day!!!

A police officer pulls over this guy who had been weaving in and out of the lanes. He goes up to the guy's window and says, "Sir, I need you to blow into this breathalyzer tube."
The man says, "Sorry officer, I can't do that. I am an asthmatic. If I do that I'll have a really bad asthma attack."
"Okay, fine. I need you to come down to the station to give a blood sample."
"I can't do that either. I am a hemophiliac. If I do that, I'll bleed to death."
"Well, then we need an urine sample."
"I'm sorry, officer, I can't do that either. I am also a diabetic. If I do that I'll get really low blood sugar."
"All right then I need you to come out here and walk this white line."
"I can't do that, officer."
"Why not?"
"Because I'm too drunk to do that!"
  

Happy April Fool's Day!

http://www.google.com/romance/

"Service to offer psychographic matchmaking plus free “contextual dating” option"

This press release shows the project launched in 2006. Though, new to me. :) http://www.google.com/romance/press.html

Try Google News US

http://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&cf=all&topic=n&ict=ln

Google image changes to http://www.gstatic.com/news/img/bluelogo/en_us/topeka.gif

What is the record number of first day views for a blogoscoped forum thread? This thread has 11616 views now, but it is more than 24 hours old.

A screenshot of some of the result timings (via Reddit):
http://i.imgur.com/kFaAo.png

The official fan page for the US TV show The Office had "integrated" with Google for a day (http://www.officetally.com/):
http://blogoscoped.com/files/officetally.png

[Thanks http://worldlabel.com!]

April 1, 2010 is census day in USA.
Apparently some of the answers are in keeping with April Fools Day.

Question 9: What is Person 1's race?
Some answers: Vulcan, Borg, Cylon, NASCAR

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0401/April-Fools-jokes-for-2010-Census-form-What-is-your-race-Vulcan.

How about letmetopekathatforyou.com

amateur bdsm movies

The Google Chrome sounds can be downloaded here:
http://cid-6e4a1df791a32234.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Downloads/Google%201%20april/chrome%5E_sounds.zip

I created a video with most of the sounds here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql62m1T78hI

Right link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiLA1NZQHfI

I don't know if this is posted already, but there was another screenshot by topeka, with a blind-dating feature.. lol!

http://pinoytutorial.com/lifebytes/topeka-google-google-april-fools-day/

I fell for googles gag hook, line & sinker! I tip my hat to google for a perfecly played prank!
Peace John