Google’s April Fools joke backfires bigtime

Posted by | April 1, 2016 09:04 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly


April Fools’ Day jokes are notoriously difficult to pull off, a fact Google has found to be true after it removed its Gmail prank just hours after it was made public as users expressed anger and outrage at the “Mic Drop” joke. Google’s idea of an April Fools’ Day joke was to add an alternative send…

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By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.

4 responses to Google’s April Fools joke backfires bigtime

  1. Budda April 1st, 2016 at 09:35

    IT people forget or have no clue that end users are the reason they even exist and need to adjust to their level not the opposite.

    • Lara April 1st, 2016 at 22:50

      Bit of a sweeping generalization there, no?

      • Budda April 2nd, 2016 at 09:04

        Perhaps. My personal experience with some IT folks(like my daughter and a few neighbors) is just that, the assumption that everyone just knows how computers work.

  2. robert April 2nd, 2016 at 11:02

    fooled again by a tech giant

    did anyone see this coming ?

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