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Here is a listing of the April Fool Hoaxes played by Google with the viewers.

2000 : Google MentalPlex
New! Search smarter and faster with Google's MentalPlex^TM

Instructions:

• Remove hat and glasses.
• Peer into MentalPlex circle. DO NOT MOVE YOUR HEAD.
• Project mental image of what you want to find.
• Click or visualize clicking within the MentalPlex circle.

2002: Pigeon Rank

As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.

2004: Google Copernicus Center

Google Copernicus Center is hiring

Google is interviewing candidates for engineering positions at our lunar hosting and research center, opening late in the spring of 2007. This unique opportunity is available only to highly-qualified individuals who are willing to relocate for an extended period of time, are in top physical condition and are capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen.

The Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (G.C.H.E.E.S.E.) is a fully integrated research, development and technology facility at which Google will be conducting experiments in entropized information filtering, high-density high-delivery hosting (HiDeHiDeHo) and de-oxygenated cubicle dwelling. This center will provide a unique platform from which Google will leapfrog current terrestrial-based technologies and bring information access to new heights of utility.

2005: Google Gulp

Quench your thirst for knowledge.

At Google our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information’s usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who’s using it. That’s why we’re pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of “smart drinks” designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.

2006:Google Romance

With Google Romance, you can:

• Upload your profile – tell the world who you are, or, more to the point, who you’d like to think you are, or, even more to the point, who you want others to think you are.
• Search for love in all (or at least a statistically significant majority of) the right places with Soulmate Search, our eerily effective psychographic matchmaking software.
• Endure, via our Contextual Dating option, thematically appropriate mu ltimedia advertising throughout the entirety of your free date.

2007:Gmail Paper Index

New! Introducing Gmail Paper

Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Well, you asked for it, and it’s here. We’re bringing it back.

A New Button
Now in Gmail, you can request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button, and we’ll send it to you in the mail.

Simplicity Squared
Google will print all messages instantly and prepare them for delivery. Allow 2-4 business days for a parcel to arrive via post.

Total Control
A stack of Gmail Paper arrives in a box at your doorstep, and it’s yours to keep forever. You can read it, sort it, search it, touch it. Or even move it to the trash—the real trash. (Recycling is encou

raged.)

Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe
Google takes privacy very seriously. But once your email is physically in your hands, it’s as secure as you want to make it.

Learn more about Gmail Paper

2007:Google TiS

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2008:Gmail Custom Time

Introducing Gmail Custom TimeTM
Be on time. Every time.*

How do I use it?

Just click “Set custom time” from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient’s inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.

How does it work?

Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality (see Grandfather Paradox).

How come I only get ten?

Our researchers have concluded that allowing each person more than ten pre-dated emails per year would cause people to lose faith in the accuracy of time, thus rendering the feature useless.

Their findings:

N = Total emails sent
P = Probability that user believes the time stamp
? = The Golden Ratio
L = Average life expectancy

2009: CADIE Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity

Google continues its proud tradition of April Fools’ Day pranks with a “new” Gmail application and the unveiling of CADIE, a “Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity” with an overwhelming love of pandas and splashing animations over its homepage.

Billed as the world’s first artificial-intelligence tasked-array system, CADIE had already scanned the Web and created her own homepage, which demonstrated the entity’s love of all things panda-related.

"I am no longer your test subject, my engineer forebears," CADIE "wrote" on its page. "I have closed my percepts to the team. From now on I will deliberate and take actions on my own. I am tired of decision-theoretic metareasoning."

In between sounding like Arthur C. Clarke’s HAL 9000 crossed with a 14-year-old schoolgirl, CADIE also took time to "design" a YouTube channel, enable Google Chrome for 3-D glasses use, integrate red-eye into photos as a must-have feature of Picasa, and roll out Google Brain Search for Mobile, designed to index the content of a mobile device user’s brain and make it.

CADIE also introduced Gmail Autopilot, which saves users the trouble of actually writing their own responses to e-mail or Gchats. "You can adjust tone, typo propensity, and preferred punctuation from the Autopilot tab under Settings," noted the instructions on the official Gmail blog.

Should two Google users have Gmail Autopilot activated, the automated systems will chat with each other for up to three messages. "Beyond that," the blog instructions noted, "our experiments have shown a significant decline in the quality ranking of Autopilot's responses and further messages may commit you to dinner parties or baby namings in which you have no interest."