Comments on: News: Google Opens Search Index

By: * Miss Universe

* Miss Universe — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:11:14 +0000

The Web has made April Fools day a game among adults and taken on new life around the world.

Before the Web, this use to be a joke among kids in the USA, adults would just ignore it.

Now the entire globe gets involve and adults are playing games on the Web

By: John Battelle

John Battelle — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:13:01 +0000

I’m kidding – April Fools!

By: Will - ArenaFlowers.com

Will - ArenaFlowers.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:55:07 +0000

This does seem unlikely and April foolish. Given I've already seen about ten april fools gags from the goog today, if this is another then I'll be forced to conclude that Google actually has a full april fool task force working up April Fools gags all year round.

How nice it must be to be so dominant in one's market that one can dedicate a full day of comms a year to just messing about. Still, no doubt the goog's done an ROI and worked out that the "fun" brand benefits of such April tomfoolery deliver a clear positive NPV and are well worth the investment. Probably.

Still. It's a lot better than the poh faced corporates of yesteryear, and so hats of to the goog and their bizarre obsession with April Fools!

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:07:07 +0000

I read this in Google Operating System.. its called OpenGoogle?

By: Tim Broder

Tim Broder — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:10:33 +0000

I’ve seen this a few times today… wondering if its an April Fools

By: Mike Volpe

Mike Volpe — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:00:59 +0000

They SHOULD do this. But they never will.

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:25:18 +0000

Your piece feels a little April Foolish. Where’s the link to the announcement?

By: nmw

nmw — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:01:25 +0000

Is there any press release or some sort of conversation with users and/or the wider public about this?

It would be nice to see some sort of 2-way communication channel....