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List of Best Google April Fool Pranks in 2013

April 3, 2013 By Kiran Yasmin Leave a Comment

First April is celebrated as April Fool worldwide and people try to make fool of others. In today’s time, big internet giants are not lagging behind in playing April Fool prank on netizens. Google, in fact, is the king of pranks when it comes to April Fool. For last few years, it has been a tradition with Google to release new “prank features” in its products.

The Best April Fool Joke By Google:

Google won the race of launching April Fool Pranks today. One of its best jokes available on the internet is:

“The announcement that it would no longer be accepting submissions for its and releasing a video saying that the site has been engaged in an eight-year competition to find the best video on the Web. YouTube trotted out several of its biggest stars as “judges” for the contest and said it will take a 10-year break to review all the entries. The winner gets to have his or her video played on YouTube, plus a sweet clip-on mp3 player and $500 for the “next creative endeavor”.

Last year, Google released the various amusing pranks such as Google Maps in 8-bit, , , and .

Some of the unique brands unveiled by Google to embrace April Fool Day this year include:

Google Wallet Mobile ATM:

Google Wallet Mobile ATM is an awesome mobile payment plan which dispenses the cash for a user when he / she plugs in the device into a smartphone. What else can be the better and enjoyable alternates except the range Google has just introduced to amuse its users in one way or the other.

Google Maps Treasure Mode:

This is a newly created which lets its users go out and explore 2D hand drawn landmarks. This first landmark would be Hidden Treasure Chests while the second Beware of Pirates. Also the map consists of a wide range of encrypted symbols for keeping intact its users.

Google Shutting Down Youtube:

The news of the closing of YouTube has apparently surprised the millions and billions of people around the globe. Not only this but also has just started an eight-year contest on Youtube for which the users will keep on uploading the videos on Youtube and finally in 2020 the top uploaded video would be named as winner. Surprising….

Google says, “This announcement will resume for 12 hours every day for the next two years.”

Google Nose:

On April 1, Google pulled of its Google nose by:

Street sense vehicles which would index billions of atmospheric miles.
Android Ambient Odor Detection will be able to have a record of the worldly smells in a sensible mobile device.

Also the would redirect its users to the various laughing searches for example “wet dog,” “used napkin,” and “diaper.”

What so ever the tools Google have used, but there is no doubt that this search engine service provider has not left a single chance to make its users laugh. Isn’t it?

Apple Launched Beta Version of Google’s Rival Search Engine: iSearch

April 1, 2013 By Abhishek Prakash 3 Comments

Apple has finally done what people have been expecting for a long time. It has finally set to get rid of its dependency on Google for search business with the launch of the beta version of its very own search engine: iSearch.

The search was expected to arrive in 2012 but the project saw several hiccups as several key developers quit the project in mid way to join Yahoo, a strategy well played by dynamic new CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer.

Google and Apple feud is not new. The two tech giants have been at loggerheads for sometime now. There have been a series of patent battles between the two. There was a time when these two companies were have separate business domains but as the time and technology progressed, the area of interests and activity begun to overlap.

The launch of Android as the rival of iOS was one of the first battles of this never-ending war. Since then Apple and Google has crossed path several times, directly or . While Google has successfully pitched Android against iOS, Apple was hugely embarrassed in its attempt to take on Google Maps with its own Apple Maps. The fiasco with Apple Maps made Apple a joke on social media and internet.

If Apple manages to pull off iSearch, it will surely be a big blow to Google as online search is its main source of revenue. With Facebook already threatening it on its home turf with Graph Search, Google certainly will have some tough time ahead.

Try the iSearch Beta now:

iSearch is still in beta and access is limited to a select few and that too via invitation. But it does not mean you cannot try your hands on it now. You can request an invite to iSearch beta by clicking on this link.