# Google/gmail and April 1

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-gmail-and-april-1/237727>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 1, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-gmail-and-april-1/237727 "2004-04-01T14:20:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-gmail-and-april-1/237727/21 "2004-04-04T21:40:36Z")

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Dunno about Gmail, but I was google-ing earlier on today and discovered I could no longer “_search within results_”, that’s just crap. It’s like any other search engine without SWR … hmph

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-gmail-and-april-1/237727/22 "2004-04-04T22:35:04Z")

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Context-specific ads actually aren’t annoying, if done properly. I _like_ seeing ads for products or services I’m interested in. It’s only when you start indiscriminately advertising everything to everyone that it gets annoying.

As for the lady in the linked picture, it’s not unreasonable to suppose that when her parents had a baby in April, they chose to name her after the month. So it seems quite plausible to suppose that a Google staffer has a wife or girlfriend named April, whose birthday really is now, and to whom he’s wishing a happy birthday.

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**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-gmail-and-april-1/237727/23 "2004-04-04T22:49:15Z")

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> [@Lobelia Overhill](#):
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> Dunno about Gmail, but I was google-ing earlier on today and discovered I could no longer “_search within results_”, that’s just crap. It’s like any other search engine without SWR … hmph

Umm…yes you can. The “search within results” link is at the bottom of the results page. It takes you to a separate page to do the search, though.

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**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-gmail-and-april-1/237727/24 "2004-04-05T20:30:30Z")

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> [@brianjedi](#):
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> Umm…yes you can. The “search within results” link is at the bottom of the results page. It takes you to a separate page to do the search, though.

Hmm, well they’ve moved the link thingy, it never used to be over there \<hmph\>

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