Google’s Best April Fools’ Gags – 2012

Here it is again, April 1st – the one day of the year where the already dubious information on the internet is more dubious than a dubious cat dubiously playing the piano.  So who provided the most questionable information? Why no other than Google of course, the provider of information!

Google have played a total of 11 pranks today by our count – here are our favourite three.

1) Google Maps in 8 bit

 

Perhaps the most elaborate of today’s Google pranks, the search engine giant’s claim to have created Google Maps for Famicom/NES with a browser enabled trial version is nothing short of genius.

2) Chrome Multitask Mode

 

Secondly we have Multitasking for Chrome. Whilst the claim that we only use 50% of our hands while browsing may not be entirely accurate *cough*, the option to use two mice to double productivity certainly is amusing.

3) Gmail Tap

 

No matter how large of a screen a smart phone may have, it is certainly difficult to comfortably fit a full qwerty keyboard into the display. The answer, revert to two buttons and write using morse code!

Have you found the other pranks Google set up today? Have any of them fooled you? What are the best pranks of the day across the web? Let us know in the comments below or on our Facebook page.

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