1. For every user google made a partnership with Virgin and made VirGle. Virgle is a project that will send humans on mars to start a colony there? (sounds familiar? 2004 Google Lunar rings any bells?). It turned out to be just another hoax. If you go to the FAQ page, the last question is like this:

Okay, come on — seriously. Is this Virgle thing for real?

What, you doubt us? Well, yes — Virgle is real.

Notice the links?

For more information visit: http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

3. Google also announced gDay, a special technology that will let you search pages BEFORE they are created. Google also launched a press release with this to make it even more plausible: http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/press.html

4. Gmail Custom time. In gmail user have the possibility to allow its users to “pre-date” their messages and choose to have the message appear as “read” or “unread”. even the interface has a new option now to make it a really good hoax.

5. Google added the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button to its calendar feature. When you tried to create a new event, you were given the regular option of entering the correct details and hitting “Create Event,” and also the new option of “I’m Feeling Lucky” which would set you up with an evening date with celebrities. To bad it isn’t real.

7. In google Docs a little easter egg was added, where a user can click the file menu and directly under new document is “New Airplane” which immediately opens a copy of a Google branded paper airplane. To reach the file menu, click the new menu, then “Document” then a new window opens.

8. For Adsense users google anounced Adsense for conversations. Here google will display ads in a screen on top of your head when you have a conversation with others. )

for more info: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/04/introducing-adsense-for-conversations.html

10. Google Books has a new section allowing users to ‘scratch and sniff’ certain books. Users are asked to “…please place your nose near the monitor and click ‘Go’” which then ‘loads odours’. When clicking on ‘Help’ users are redirected to a Google Book page entitled “Belgravia: A London Magazine”

So that is about all. Make sure you check them all out. I guarantee you will have a good laugh.

The first hoax that google made was in 2000 with the google MentalPlex, a system that reads the mind on the user and searches what he wants, withount the user to have to type something. After that, in2002, google announcement of PigeonRank. In 2004 google announced Google Lunar, a space station on moon where they will do research. In 2005 the Google Gulp, a dictionary energy drink.

At about 10:00 PM Pacific time (where Google has its headquarters) the day before April 1, 2007, Google changed the login page for Gmail to announce a new service called Gmail Paper. This actually pretended to print your email on paper and send them my post to your address. This was also a good hoax because google also found a solution for the cost: ads will be also printed on the other side of the paper.

So this was a history lesson. But will google make this year? We will just have to wait and see. But don’t think that if it is released on 1st of April than it is a hoax. Google also lunched other services that are real and good on 1st april. Shortly before midnight on March 31, 2004, Google announced the launch of Gmail. Some believed it was a hoax, because free web-based e-mail with one gigabyte of storage was unheard of at the time. In 2005, Google increased Gmail storage to two gigabytes and released Google Ride Finder.