Oh Google. You have provided us with many great things: searching, emailing, documents. And there is so much more! You seem like such a serious web competitor. You are heavy handed with the likes of John Chow and you proclaim to be free of evil. And while some may view this as a dominating and overbearing position, I admire your gall! And I also know that you have a sense of humor to go along with all of this. Lets take a look at what you have done:
- When you click a Google ad twice, Google may urge you to “give your mouse a break”
- They display cheese if you’re at the highest zoom level at Google Moon
- During April Fool’s, they say that pigeons determine the ranking of our web sites
- Google pretends they’re an airline at parties
- You can enter ‘niniane kicks ass‘ into Google Maps to locate the Googleplex headquarter and Google employee Niniane Wang
- They display spam cooking recipes in your Gmail spam folder
- Their calculator read Douglas Adams’ science fiction book and says 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything
- Their employees look like smurfs every now and then
- Google offers you Klingon as search interface language
- When Larry Page talked about other Google rules than just “Don’t be evil” he said “We allow dogs, for example”
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Nice little compilation list David, some of them gave me a chuckle. It would’ve been nice if you made each of them linking to a source / context so we could click through and find out the back story to each item\ (or like in the case of the calculation) be linked directly to the item
Thanks for the tip, Dave. I added the relevant links!
GOOGLE – The world is mine)
they will buy everything…. even you and me)
I tried to see the cheese on Google Moon. But it didn’t show up on the highest zoom level. Good post btw. The first one was the funniest.
will i am not for sale:)
but if google buys the country in total i think i will be sold too:(
Lol! I have seen some good Google jokes before, I think theres more too…
This was really funny. I want to see more humour. Where are you?
Google soon take and online humor niche
How funny, Google is taking over the world. The only bad thing is Google giveth and taketh away!
I’d seen some of those before but not others. Google are pretty funny when they want to be. Makes you wonder what these guys get up to all day long?
long live google!!
I tried to see the cheese on Google Moon. But it didn’t show up on the highest zoom level. Good post btw. The first one was the funniest.
hello..
thanks
It sounds like it’s sleeting, but every time I turn on the outside light & look, nothings happening.
Thanks for the tip
Now this is a post I would love to Digg. And not forget : they can kill your site and family business in a second. But who cares….Adwords is soooo great, right? With that super secret QS no one knows what is it..
Let’s all use Adwords…repeat after me…LOL
i like the smurfs best! its hilarious!
I like the cheese in the moon. It’s nice to see a company using a sense of humor every once in a while.
Google rules the World, the moon is made of cheese….end of.
Hah.. how clever.. I don’t think I’ve ever run into any of these though. Funny people.
How funny
Google is taking over the world.
google should be they are the best
lol well played goooogle! x
good thanks
lol nice pix, i love Google
Its nice to see they still have a laugh and arent completely boring stiffs, aka microsoft
Had a laugh on this one. Yup, I always wonder about their spam recipes whenever I checked my spam folder. Google sure is goofy.
Funny lol Google RULEZ!
They have bugs too
It’s good to see that a large corporation can still have a sense of humour. I’ve always been intrigued by Google and how they seem to have a great environment to work in.
great pix
I hear that google employees have a fun work environment.
Funny pictures. But I still don’t like the company.
Great information thanks
ow this is a post I would love to Digg. And not forget : they can kill your site and family business in a second. But who cares….Adwords is soooo great, right? With that super secret QS no one knows what is it..
Let’s all use Adwords…repeat after me…:)
Nice compilation of google’s funny side. we everyone google everything even people. it is kind of verb now.
Google rules The World….
LOL Thanks!
Ahhh it’s too bad the google cheese on the moon trick no longer works
It was funny too, I remember a time when it did work, as I’ve seen it before =D
Till then,
Jean
great list, david.
all those funny things that make internet better.
Gosta love the google giggles.
They are the daddies and always will be.
Nice list, thanks for the post.
great list
very nice list
Folks at google always seem to have a sense of humor, remember those april fools’ jokes.
hmm, i also wish i would be a part of google and the things would be happing in front of me.
by the way thanks for the information.
I’d been following your tweets, dying to hear the story. I’m half tempted to listen to the podcast but frankly, it doesn’t sound like it would be good for my blood pressure.
Not an HOUR ago I had another Mike Feathers “When would I possibly have found that?” moment during a TDD session.