haha finally a prank

no no.. its actually wap.google.com, if you look carefully you will see the room which is being mentioned!!

so funny, hahahahah, I love their april fools.... the jokes and the real ones

Ha Ha...It is in BETA, I dont find it in it's google rooms logo....:)

LOL

Google Rooms

check the Blog

http://googlerooms.blogspot.com/

PS

The blog is mine.

Fred,

sounds like you are the anonymous googler, dont you?

:)

No I'm not

by the way I have seen those magazines (in the room) somewhere else??

hmmmmm:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/18/technology/googleprice/

thats the one that got 'em in MUCHO trouble with the SEC.

I call shens. This prank is a hoax. :P

yeah it kinda looks like it to me now. still waiting for the real thing.

Ya...really hope this is not....Pray for GDRIVE and CL2

The real thing is the BOGUS job Offering,

Read it carefully ,,

it says under
Requirements:

BA or BS from top-flight school.

FLIGHT SCHOOL LOL....

http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/answer.py?answer=24249

good point.. it does seem a little prankish now when you pointed out.

but the google jobs entry is old.

look at this google cache link from 22 march:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:k75u-ufj8kgJ:www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/topic.py%3Fdep_id%3D1075%26loc_id%3D1116+Executive+Administrator+for+the+Co-Founders+of+Google&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2

c'mon Guys it was so Obvious

"Filter and MAKE DECISIONS on worthwhile external communication opportunities"

temporary position....LOL

This is phillip's way of saying 'april fools'.. well done, GB..
I bought into it for a second. Anonymous googler, yeah right!!

yeah, i skimmed it the first time but now after reading it (lol) it's obvious.

It’s better than the two I thought of.

Google Strip Search (Beta)
Google Cavity Search (Hardware Appliance)

If this is true – this is definitely worth a DIGG – Okay,... Digg-ed

http://digg.com/design/Preview:_Google_April_Fools_Page_Leaked_

remeber: in german it's already long first april.... that's why phillip starts joking

OMG you made the Homepage IN ONE HOUR

THIS HAD BETTER BE TRUE – IF NOT – EMBARRASSING!!!!!

http://digg.com/users/SearchEngines/homepage

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"The real thing is the BOGUS job Offering,

Read it carefully ,,

it says under
Requirements:

BA or BS from top-flight school.

FLIGHT SCHOOL LOL.... "

"top-flight" simply means "excellent" / "best possible" (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=top-flight), of course Google hires only the best people.

However, this part is still suspicious – "highly sensitive, confidential and non-routine information." handled by a temporary employee?

google.com/romance

happy april fools day

This is annoying, my joke a b3ta.com the other week was the exact same one..... wih shittier stock photography, (though the perspective in this makes it look rendered.)

http://b3ta.com/challenge/google/ for this and a million other jokes.

No, the real April Fool's gag is Google Romance – http://www.google.com/romance

> This is annoying, my joke a b3ta.com the
> other week was the exact same one

The anonymous Googler lets me know the idea wasn't inspired by yours, but that this was a coincidence – the idea for Google Rooms actually dates back to March 14, when the anonymous Googler emailed his friend Andreas about the project. But after the anonymous Googler realized the coincidence on Friday after receiving the B3ta newsletter he was indeed mildly shocked just as you are now :)

Oh, and by the way, a happy April Fool's to everyone :)

Philipp,

it was an excellent one ;-)

Happy April Fool's to All

Nicely played Philipp, kudos! :)

woodhead,

Top-Flight --> I said Read carefully --> Humor

"That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement: a writer skilled at crafting humor" :)

No, it's Google Romance. See http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/cupids-algorithms.html for the Googleblog post. The actual (pretend) service is at http://www.google.com/romance/

Hi,

Is this for real? Google Rooms?

Suraj Luke

LOL...

Juvenile. Not a very clever ruse

For those who still don't know:
http://www.google.com/romance/profile.html
says:
"Profile Upload Rejected

You gave it your best shot, but things don't always turn out how you expected. This is because you either:

   1. Fell for our April Fool’s joke, in which case ha ha, wasn't that amusing and harmless and mostly in good taste and not all psychologically damaging under various and sundry aspects of contemporary tort law, please don't sue us; or

   2. Are genuinely enjoying, or least momentarily tolerating, our April Fool’s joke and wanted to surf your way into its every last nook and cranny, in which case

   1. ...ha ha, wasn't that amusing and harmless and mostly in good taste and not all psychologically damaging under various and sundry aspects of contemporary tort law, please don't sue us; and/or

   2. you might want to take a trip down our April Fool’s memory lane, here or here or here. Enjoy."

Waiting for the April 2007 Prank

100% ditto to TheoryMaster! (gosh, how do the googlers keep on coming up with those wild things!?)