Google famously publicizes gag products on April Fool’s Day. Remember 8-bit maps? YouTube DVDs? But despite a release date of April 1, 2004, its webmail service was no joke. Google’s simple, browser-based inbox introduced to the mainstream several ideas that have become so commonplace over the intervening decade, they practically define modern computing as we know it.
Google has been operating its Google+ social network for a long time and it has a reputation of being a ghost town. Facebook is certainly more popular and grew faster … Continue reading
To say that the folks over at Google are a creative bunch would be quite the understatement. After all, they have come up with some pretty decent services and tools in the past, and April Fool’s is a great way to let off some steam. In fact, another prank by them would be having Google Translate being able to support Emoji, and in this prank, it claims to be built directly into Chrome for Android and iOS so that users are able to read all of your favorite web content using efficient and emotive illustrations, so that you need not have to labor your eyes through a bunch of text.
Google Translate Does The Emoji Dance (April Fool’s) original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Earlier this morning, we did bring you word on Google ushering in April Fool’s Day by giving you a chance to catch Pokemon. Well, it seems that there is yet another April Fool’s prank from Google that will involve the Google Shelfie, which is undoubtedly a wordplay on the “SHareable sELFIE”, if you will.
Gmail Shelfie Another April Fool’s Attempt original content from Ubergizmo. 
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There’s nothing like a good April Fool’s joke to make you lose hope that something impossible could be possible. Today it’s inside Google’s new Maps Pokemon video, showing here a … Continue reading
Tomorrow is April 1st, the day when folks around the world try to prank each other. Google has been taking part in this tradition for quite a while now, and it has created some of the most talked about April Fools’ pranks on the internet. Google April Fools’ 2014 is going to be a bit different. This time around, the company has leveraged augmented reality and its popular mapping service, Google Maps, to let us catch Pokémon. The game is loosely tied into Maps.
Google April Fools’ 2014 Is All About Catching Pokémon original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Google is out lobbying against potential Glass driving bans, and now developers are joining the chorus of those demanding a more nuanced view of how distracting wearable-tech is for those … Continue reading
Starting this week and lasting until the 2nd of April, 2014, Google is hosting a Pokemon Google Maps challenge. In this challenge, users must locate and collection hundreds of Pokemon … Continue reading
Google’s Chromecast has gained two new streaming services, with Rdio’s digital radio and Crackle’s movie rentals both now squirting content to the HDMI dongle. The new additions bring 20 million … Continue reading
Chromecast has turned out to be a very popular product. Released last year, initially only in the U.S., Google was able to sell “millions” of units on its home turf alone. Earlier this month it finally launched the HDMI dongle in nearly a dozen countries. Apart from selling them like hot cakes, Google has also been working on bring fresh and new content sources to Chromecast. Today, Crackle lands on the dongle.
Chromecast Gets Crackle Support original content from Ubergizmo. 
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