Tom's Blog: 3/31/13

Monday, April 1, 2013

Yes, it's that time of year again already! What does Google have in store for us? First a couple summaries:

From The Next Web:
"Round Up: All of Google’s jokes for April Fools 2013"
http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/03/31/round-up-all-of-googles-jokes-for-april-fools-2013-from-google-maps-treasure-hunting-to-youtube-closing/

From Search Engine Watch:
"Google April Fools' Pranks 2013: YouTube Closing, Google Nose, Gmail Blue & More!"
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2258435/Google-April-Fools-Pranks-2013-YouTube-Closing-Google-Nose-Gmail-Blue-More

The YouTube contest is ending very soon (winner to be announced in 2023). Get your video in soon! Love the cameos from various contestants! From YouTube:

"YouTube's ready to select a winner"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0

The comments (at least when I viewed this very early in the morning, 2a) were PRICELESS. Can you believe that some people actually believed this???

not funny i was going to get pissed if u deleted my vids ALL MY DAMN VIDS WOULD BE DELETED thats alot of shit to re upload

I bet the probability is pretty high that the winning video will have at least one cat in it.

i almost got fooled but only because it's not even April Fools yet it's still March 31st

0:41 - 0:43 Isn't that the "We gone find you" guys whose sister almost got raped ? :O

I bet that this is april fools

You scared the sh't out of me YouTube! Don't do that!

what??? o_O

Google Maps Treasure Mode
https://maps.google.com/maps?t=8 (not sure how this will look on your computer)
Be sure to zoom in and see what Street View looks like (if you have your spyglass).

From Google Maps:
"Explore Treasure Mode with Google Maps"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qFFHC0eIUc

Google Nose
From Google:
"Introducing Google Nose"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFbYadm_mrw

Looks like the Autocompleter dude (remember him?) got a promotion! :)

From the Official Gmail Blog:
"GMail Blue"
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/introducing-gmail-blue.html

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