Every year on April’s fools day, practical jokes and hoaxes are spread between friends, families, and even the biggest corporations, but the team behind google are always innovative with their tricks. So here are some of their tricks!
1) Google Gulp (2005):
Google branched out into a new product area with the announcement of Google Gulp, a high-tech “smart drink” that featured a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of the bottle that would read “all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time.
Plus, the company added, “it’s low in carbs!”
2) Toilet Internet Service Provider (2007):
Google announced a new technology called TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) that would allow it to provide free in-home wireless broadband service. Users would connect to the internet via their bathroom’s plumbing system. Google promised that it would provide a higher-performance version of the service for businesses which would include “24-hour, on-site technical support in the event of backup problems, brownouts and data wipes.”
3) gDay Mate (2008):
Google Australia debuted gDay technology “enabling you to search content on the internet before it is created”:
The core technology that powers gDay™ is MATE™ (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation). Using MATE’s™ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, they can construct elements of the future. Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and index of historic, cached web content. They can use this technique to predict almost anything on the web – tomorrow’s share price movements, sports results or news events. Plus, using language regression analysis, Google can even predict the actual wording of blogs and newspaper columns, 24 hours before they’re written!
4) Google Becomes Topeka (2010):
Google announced that it was officially changing its name to Topeka. The name change was a response to the recent decision by the mayor of Topeka, Kansas to change the name of his city to Google.
Google remarked: “We didn’t reach this decision lightly; after all, we had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name. But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka’s municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains.”
5) Gmail Motion (2011):
Google debuted a new feature — Gmail Motion — designed to allow people to eliminate the use of keyboards and mice and instead write emails using only gestures, which Gmail would track using your computer webcam and a “spatial tracking algorithm.”
link: Gmail Motion Beta.
6) Gmail Tap:
Gmail introduced “Gmail Tap”. This app replaced the QWERTY keyboard on mobile phones with two keys, a dot and a dash, allowing users to communicate using morse code. This not only simplified the act of typing on a phone, but also allowed it to be done without looking at the screen, making it “ideal for situations where you need to discreetly send emails, such as when you’re on a date or in a meeting with your boss.”
7) Google Nose (2013):
Google announced Google Nose Beta — allowing people to smell what they searched for online. The company explained that they had leveraged “new and existing technologies to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available,” with their “street sense vehicles” roaming far and wide to index millions of different scents, thereby creating the “Google Aroma-base” of 15M+ “scentibytes.”
Source: http://hoaxes.org/
