A surprising link on the Google home page:
A Cool World: Enjoy a rosier future as a Virgle Pioneer.
I was, to put it politely, very surprised. Goes to show how much creditability one can have just by owning a few billion dollars. I took it far more seriously than I should have. It wasn’t until the bottom of the FAQ that I found the April Fool’s joke.
So the question, I fell for it-did anyone else? Will this go down as a truly great April Fool’s joke or just another waste o’ bits?
No. I realized the joke. YMMV.
I went to Google’s page this morning looking for the April Fool’s joke - in previous years, they’ve had the Google LunarPlex, PigeonRank, and others. There are other pranks scattered around their website as well.
Ditto on that. My first thing to do the morning of April 1 is to go to Google and see what the joke is this year. Given that the Virgle link was the only non-standard thing on the front page, I had it pegged almost immediately (I didn’t confirm until I followed the “Is this real?” question in the FAQ…no need to jump to conclusions, right?).
Polls and shared opinions belong in IMHO. Moved.
samclem General Questions Moderator