Mohamed Zaatar's Blog

Every year in 1st of April, Google introduce a new April fool. Million of people believe it. They started in 2000 till this year 2011. I collects the list of them to updated every year in shaa Allah.

2000
MentalPlex
A search trick "MentalPlex" , claimed that user have to do some handy actions to get more search results :) with these 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.

users will have some funny error messages when users will try to get search results:

1. Error 01: Brainwaves received in analog. Please re-think in digital.
2. Error 001: Weak or no signal detected. Upgrade transmitter and retry

2001
Nothing appeared this year

2002
Pigeon Rank
New Page Rank "Pigeon Rank". A page ranking system based on pigeon clicks :)

2003
Nothing appeared this year

2004
Link
Unreal and fictitious Job opportunities at Google Search center ON THE MOON :)

2005
Google Glup
Google Glup, they claimed that this drink or beverage will increase user intelligence thus it will increase Google Search Engine results.

2006
Google Romance
"Dating is a searsh problem. Solve it with Google Romance." Simply find your soul mate in Google. and here is the instructions

2007
1- Gmail Paper
GMail Paper, print what ever mails you need and will be mailed to your doorstep within 2-4 business days For FREE !!

2- Toilet Internet Service Provider
Free and fast internet broadband service , install it


2008
1- Google Webblogs

2- Dajare in Japan : organizing the world's laughter is its mission

3- Scartch and Sniff : Google Book Search users were asked to place their noses near the monitor and click GO, then "Loading odors" will appear.

4- Dialect Translation : from dialect Korean to Standard Korean

5- Google Docs "Air plane": Google docs user click on file and new document as "air plane" and this image will appear.


6- Google Man Power : in china, 25 million volunteers do the searching.

7- Google Wake up kit.

8- Virgle: a new project announced between Virgin and Google.

9- Feeling Lucky Google Calender: create lucky date with one of some famous celebs

10 - Google Custom Time: send mails after some time :)

2009
1- Google claims, google.com.au is running on Microsoft Windows on IIS/3.0 and google.com on Apache/0.8.4

2- GMail autopilot: a new GMail option will reply for your incoming mails based on the person and content with enhanced options of emotions usage.



3- GBall

4- 3D Google Chrome version


2010
Animal translator
Reader Advantage
ChromeSounds
Wave Wave Notifications
and more

2011
1- GMail motion: a way that will enable GMail users to interact with GMail with their bodies
2- Comic sans for Everyone: Google will use the Comic sans font for all Google Services and pages.