News For April 2, 2008

Entire Internet Goes Crazy Over April Fools As usual, April Fools day was the internet’s Christmas, with many major and minor websites getting in the holiday spirit, most with unfunny fake news stories. A few were interest or stood out:

  • Google AdSense introduced AdSense for Conversations, involving a screen you stuck on top of your head that shows ads based on what you are talking about.
  • YouTube turned all the Featured Videos on its front page into links to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. The video, already the center of the Rickrolling meme, is now the unofficial anthem of April Fools day, with multiple pranks involving it somehow. The video pulled 6 million views in just one day.
  • Phillip listed a ton of others from Google, including a retread “We’re going to space” joke from Google (this time with Richard Branson and Mars and YouTube videos, but even less funny than when they did it in 2006), scratch-and-sniff Google Book Search, Google T [...]
    URL : http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2008/04/02/news-for-april-2-2008/
    Date : 2008-04-02 06:44:16
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    Author : Inside Google

    Unofficial blog about the Google search engine.
    http://google.blognewschannel.com/

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