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- stevewilhelm 10y agoIt's April 1st somewhere.
- yincrash 10y agoThe YouTube video triggered the Google search on the tablet I was watching the video on.
- thesmallestcat 10y agoWas hoping this would be GNOME-related.
- solipsism 10y agoWhy would I use this? Knowing Google they will probably cut support for it in a couple of years, leaving me with a gnome-shaped brick.
- pavanky 10y agoOr following the recent trend, they could launch 3 different alternatives doing the same thing: Google leprechaun, Google elf, and Google troll.
- rifung 10y agoJoke's on you; they already don't support it. They've gone from a couple of years to none at all! It's an April Fool's Joke..
- RubyPinch 10y agoThey'd close support for it in a couple years, but they'd keep the voice recordings around forever!
- hprotagonist 10y agoI'm saving my money for google XFCE.
- alexhutcheson 10y agoAlmost certainly inspired by this story[1]: 'Around 2002, a team was testing a subset of search limited to products, called Froogle. But one problem was so glaring that the team wasn't comfortable releasing Froogle: when the query "running shoes" was typed in, the top result was a garden gnome sculpture that happened to be wearing sneakers. Every day engineers would try to tweak the algorithm so that it would be able to distinguish between lawn art and footwear, but the gnome kept its top position. One day, seemingly miraculously, the gnome disappeared from the results. At a meeting, no one on the team claimed credit. Then an engineer arrived late, holding an elf with running shoes. He had bought the one-of-a kind product from the vendor, and since it was no longer for sale, it was no longer in the index. "The algorithm was now returning the right results," says a Google engineer. "We didn't cheat, we didn't change anything, and we launched."' [1] From "In the Plex" by Steven Levy https://books.google.com/books?id=V1u1f8sv3k8C&pg=PA60 https://books.google.com/books?id=V1u1f8sv3k8C&pg=PA60
- hartator 10y agoAds are getting smarter.
- oldgun 10y agoIt's April 1st already.
- marcuskaz 10y agoTime to log off the internet, thankfully it's on Saturday.
- nthitz 10y agoThe internet has ruined April Fools day.
- MikusR 10y agoI get "Not available in your region." I love geolocked April fools even better than the regular ones.
- hartator 10y agoI do remember a time when Google was making real product announcements too good to be true on April, 1st. I guess this time is done.
- k-mcgrady 10y agoAnyone else tired of the April 1st stuff? Lots of stuff has been showing up since the 31st too. I used to enjoy the holiday because it had some built-in restraint (no pranks after midday) and I'll admit for the first little while internet companies getting in on it was fun. But they've ruined it by over saturating it. How many pranks does one company need to put out? Edit: In fact it might inject more fun again if Google and everyone else only showed the pranks up until midday based on your location and if you were interested you had to find them before then or you wouldn't get to see them live.
- username223 10y agoNo one wants to see this tired marketing chum. The "creatives" are probably more useful starting next year's Super Bowl ad, or putting on monkey suits and dancing in the lobby, or busking in front of the building. Or maybe the "jokes" could only be served over http, not https, and would gradually fade into the background.
- Buge 10y agoI think it's early this year because people don't want to release stuff on the weekend.
- codq 10y agoI can't wait for next year, then.
- sixQuarks 10y agoIt's kind of cringeworthy that Google is still doing this. They're not the small, "cool" startup anymore. It's like the popular kid from high school who kept hanging out in the parking lot years after graduating
- adtac 10y agoI don't know about that. IMO they are the coolest of the big companies - Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Amazon all feel more corporate-y.
- packersfan0000 10y agoIt's actually a real product, my roommate has been working on it for the past months. I think it was initially supposed to be launched last summer, but there was a bunch of technical issues + scope creep and it's only happening now. Seems like a misstep to announce this so close to April Fool's Day, but apparently the higher ups couldn't tolerate any more delays. I understand the confusion, but if you look at the site you can see it's actually available for sale.
- thewhitetulip 10y agoWouldn't it be really cool if this post is true and they launch the product next week? I mean, I know it is a joke.
- infogulch 10y ago"Google Gnomes are real, but only in our hearts — for now. Happy April Fools’!"
- scrollaway 10y agoDear Google, My browser (and by my browser I mean YOUR browser) is sending the header 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.8' on every request, because it is configured to prefer pages in English. Therefore, THIS is not what I want to see when I load a page: http://imgur.com/AcugEjZ http://imgur.com/AcugEjZ Please stop detecting language based on IP when there's a perfectly good setting for it. People travel, you know? You do it on Blogger too - shame on you. :/
- jaredandrews 10y agoI'm on a VPN out of Tampa Florida and I see the same page but in Spanish. Shakin' my head.
- Buge 10y agoI wonder how many people there are with browsers sending en-US but who want non-English results. The current behavior might make more people happy, at least in the short term.
- int_19h 10y agoWell, it's their browser. If it's doing that (requesting en-US rather than OS locale) when it shouldn't, they ought to fix it.
- xtreme 10y agoWhile that would be ideal, from Google's point of view the number of travelers is so small that it might be more sensible to cater to the native users. Also, on average they are less likely to know how to change these settings or that such settings even exist.
- int_19h 10y agoNative users who have their locale set to English often also prefer websites to serve them English, at least until they ask otherwise. And such people most certainly know how to change the setting, or that the setting in question exists. After all, they did change the locale in their OS (or installed an English version of it, instead of the one localized for their market).
- MRFREDOD 10y agoCHEATING ADULTERY INFIDELITY OF SPOUSE GET PROOFS? HIRE A PROFESSIONAL PI fortressinvestigation@outlook.com OR eliteprohackers@gmail.com
- AlexB138 10y agoI suppose it's a bit stingy, but the fact that this is basically a semi-stealth ad for the Home, and the giant ad for the Home on the page, is a turn off on this. Cramming ads even into "jokes" kills what little fun there is left in April Fools.
- ph33r 10y agoFor a brief second after reading the title, I thought I might be getting a Google Drive client on Linux... jokes on me!
- otto_ortega 10y agoAchievement Unlocked: Mocking a competitor's product (Amazon's Alexa) on April's Fool
- jeffjose 10y agoOK, Gnome is better than saying OK, Google. I still can't believe Google decided NOT to give its personal assistant a name and personality.
- lobotryas 10y agoThat was actually smart of them. To "google" has something has become a new verb in English. You'd never hear someone say to "siri", "bing" (sorry, MS), or "cortana" for something. Instead, you can go and "ask" google directly to do something for you.
- mertd 10y agoThe one you left out (Alexa) is very common.
- magma17 10y agoshut up and take my money
- vanderZwan 10y agoI kind of want this to be real, if only so that someone will hack in the Gnome insults from Fable 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXJn2CL2Vk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXJn2CL2Vk
- khazhoux 10y agoThere's a brilliant Dead Kennedys song called "Halloween," about how you plan all year for that one night you'll cut loose and dress crazy... but that night you're still self-conscious and hiding in a mask, and nothing's changed. The next day and the next year, you'll just brag about that one night, but there was nothing there and nothing in between. That captures best my feelings about these tech gags. You wanna be silly and funny? Awesome, do something silly and funny. But don't wait for the Corporate-Approved Silly Day, and then just run the formula ("take product X and dress it up like endearing or ridiculous product Y"), and then expect me to be delighted by the joke, which I didn't participate in, and I could have predicted at this point since 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiySknl9zs0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiySknl9zs0 http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/12529/ http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/12529/
- TillE 10y agoThat's such a good reference, and a great explanation of why today is so irritating. It was always a dumb holiday, but thank the internet for turning it into corporate Halloween.
- lobotryas 10y agoWhen I first saw the gnome I thought it would eventually tie into HL3, but alas, these dreams are still only dreams.
- arjie 10y agoHaha. I enjoyed this and I like the April Fools jokes.
- d--b 10y agoApril 1st, got it.
- dwighttk 10y agoApril Fools day is the worst. Thanks Internet.
- kobeya 10y agoI'm geoblocked. Can someone explain what this is?
- Mikeb85 10y agoDamn, after reading the description I wish it wasn't April Fool's. I'd totally get one with the dino floatie and little lawn chair.
- sealub 10y agoThis is good, but my personal favorite was Google TiSP. :-) https://archive.google.com/tisp/index.html https://archive.google.com/tisp/index.html