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List of Google April Fools' Day jokes. From 2000 to 2019, Google frequently inserted jokes and hoaxes into its products on April Fools' Day, which takes place on April 1. The company ceased performing April Fools jokes in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has not performed them since.
The American technology company Googlehas added Easter eggs into many of its products and services, such as Google Search, YouTube, and Androidsince the 2000's. [1][2] Easter eggsare hidden features or messages that not many people know about, inside jokes, and cultural references inserted into media.
Panoramio was a geo-located tagging, photo sharing mashup active between 2005 and 2016. Photos uploaded to the site were accessible as a layer in Google Earth and Google Maps. [1] [2] The site's goal was to allow Google Earth users to learn more about a given area by viewing the photos that other users had taken at that location. [1] Panoramio was acquired by Google in 2007. In 2009 the ...
Google's birthday was actually on September 7, which is the day when the company was incorporated, but since 2005 they changed the date to September 27.
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended effect or double-meaning when read by someone who speaks another language.
Here's how to turn off location history in Google Maps on your Android phone: Open the Google Maps app > tap on your profile picture in the top-right corner > tap "Your Timeline" > toggle ...
Google Street View blurs parts of images containing car number plates and human faces in order to protect privacy and anonymity. [8]