{"id":836,"date":"2013-04-03T08:45:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T08:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2013-04-04T02:52:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T02:52:35","slug":"april-fools-day-did-google-fool-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/2013\/04\/april-fools-day-did-google-fool-you\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fool\u2019s Day \u2013 Did Google Fool You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 1<sup>st<\/sup> has come and gone and the pranks are done, hopefully there are no hard feelings. Each year Google has a great deal of fun with making fun announcements and fake products. Some of the funny ones this year included Google Treasure Maps, a new search that included smells, Youtube closing down to judge all the video entries they received so far, and analytics to show traffic on the international space station. Here is Australia, Google\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/google-au.blogspot.com.au\/2013\/04\/renovate-your-house-on-street-view-with_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Australia Blog<\/a>\u00a0announced SCHMICK, which stands for Simple Complete House Makeover Internet Conversion Kit. It\u2019s a new addition to Street View that lets you decorate your house with a number of pre-defined improvements.<\/p>\n<p><b>Google SCHMICK<\/b>(<em>Simple Complete House Makeover Internet Conversion Kit<\/em>.)<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>BEFORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-837\" alt=\"BrandMe - Google April Fools Joke 2013 - Before\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/brandme_google_april_fools_before.jpg\" width=\"458\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/brandme_google_april_fools_before.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/brandme_google_april_fools_before-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>AFTER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-838\" alt=\"BrandMe - Google April Fools Joke 2013 - After\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/brandme_google_april_fools_after.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/brandme_google_april_fools_after.jpg 482w, https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/brandme_google_april_fools_after-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Social media adds a new dimension to April Fool\u2019s Day jokes. What are some of your office traditions for April First? Did they work? Please share some funny stories with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 1st has come and gone and the pranks are done, hopefully there are no hard feelings. Each year Google has a great deal of fun with making fun announcements and fake products. Some of the funny ones this year included Google Treasure Maps, a new search that included smells, Youtube closing down to judge all the video entries they received so far, and analytics to show traffic on the international space station. Here is Australia, Google\u2019s\u00a0Australia Blog\u00a0announced SCHMICK, which stands for Simple Complete House Makeover Internet Conversion Kit. It\u2019s a new addition to Street View that lets you decorate your house with a number of pre-defined improvements. Google SCHMICK(Simple Complete House Makeover Internet Conversion Kit.) BEFORE AFTER Social media adds a new dimension to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[269,270,271,272],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-marketing","tag-april-fools","tag-april-fools-jokes","tag-google-april-fools-jokes","tag-google-jokes-2013"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}