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Virgle, gDay, April fool, Google and the Rickroll

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What happened this year with Google and April fools day 2008? Check out what they are right here in this post called “Virgle, April fool, Google and the Rickroll“….

An invitation.

Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.”

www.google.com/virgle

Another classic catch was gDay MATE. A service that could get search results one day in advance. Fooling you with fake testimonials and mock screen shots.

“Google Australia has introduced a new feature, enabling you to search content on the internet before it is created”

gDay MATE, Google April Fools 2008
www.google.com/gday

and… this Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give your up. This video was on 400,000 views, 12 h ago, now going on 4 mil. Why? Because Google redirected their Featured videos (on the home page) to this video. Why? why? The Rickroll? (It’s a cult thing)

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5 Responses

Update: Currently at 6 000 000 views…

2 April 2008. Reply to Foxinni #
thanks for the post

2 April 2008. Reply to KriTick #
Where do they come up with these things??!

5 April 2008. Reply to Mike #
Just checked… 7,1 mil views… sheez!

7 April 2008. Reply to LeeMarah #
The Rickroll is hilarious. i’m sure tons of people got tricked with the gDay MATE april fools joke. Hehe

7 April 2008. Reply to Web Surfer #

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