Google's April Fool

[The_root_of_all_evil]

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New! Break the language barrier between species with Google Animal Translate!

Making the world's information universally accessible is a key goal for Google. Language is one of our biggest challenges so we have targeted our efforts on removing language barriers between the species. We are excited to introduce Translate for Animals, an Android application which we hope will allow us to better understand our animal friends. We've always been a pet-friendly company at Google, and we hope that Translate for Animals encourages greater interaction and understanding between animal and human.

Translate for Animals is an application for Android phones that recognises and transcribes words and phrases that are common to a species, like cats for example. To develop Translate for Animals, we worked closely with many of the world's top language synthesis teams, and with leaders in the field of animal cognitive linguistics, including senior fellows at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

So Google's finally going to the Dogs. But we need a discussion, so ... What would your pet look for on Google?

 

[Spiner909]

That is not remotely funny at all.
Then again, it's not like Google is a humor thing.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I thought their April fools joke was the changes they'd made to the Youtube interface.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I thought their April fools joke was the changes they'd made to the Youtube interface.

I hope so. From what I've seen of the changes they seem a bit arbitrary. Of course I think I said something similar when the Escapist changed shit around.

Turns out it probably isn't. This year's AF joke is "TEXTp" resolution.

 

[Valksy]

We have 4 cats. I am already convinced they are evil geniuses and have some sort of scoreboard for how many times they make one of us fall down the stairs. So I am going to guess that they would look for research materials on how to genetically modify feline DNA to aid in the evolution of opposable thumbs.

Or maybe just find a place they can order a pizza with Whiskas Supameat on.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Or maybe just find a place they can order a pizza with Whiskas Supameat on.

Just order from half the pizza places around here from the smell of it.

 

[jasoncyrus]

We have 4 cats. I am already convinced they are evil geniuses and have some sort of scoreboard for how many times they make one of us fall down the stairs. So I am going to guess that they would look for research materials on how to genetically modify feline DNA to aid in the evolution of opposable thumbs.

Or maybe just find a place they can order a pizza with Whiskas Supameat on.

This is what single story homes are for.

 

[Hellz_Barz]

You should check out wikipedias' april fools front page, It's heaps good. Got wife selling in England, people have been sent back in time in Japan and apparantley Winston Churchhill just died.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

I'm pretty sure my kitten would be searching for "How to kill your owners for humiliating you." ...after all, I did tie a pink bow onto his collar today.

 

[YoUnG205]

SWing and a miss for google there I think.
and I really don't know......

 

[Insanum]

Thats brilliant! So far the big hitters are impressing me with their April fools stuff this year.

(and the fact that ive not fallen for them first REALLY helps)