April Fools Jokes From Google & Bing In 2016

Apr 1, 2016 - 7:37 am 3 by
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Truth is, I hate April Fools day because it messes with people like me who try to find real news. But some of the jokes make me laugh, so it is all good. Also I have way too much going on, on the 1st of the month. Client billing, payroll, my weekly video, and normal daily grind. So it is just an annoying day.

Either way, Anything posted over here after 7:46am EST today is an April Fools prank from me. Other than that here is a quick summary of the April Fools Pranks from Google and Bing.

Bing has the best home page, check it out:

Now for Google, I am just going to embed them all:

The sad thing, there are so many more from Google.

On the search quality side, Gary Illyes, Zineb, John Mueller and friends are having fun with animated GIFs on Twitter. Just check out their profiles at @methode, @Missiz_Z and @JohnMu.

Everyone, don't believe what you read out there.

 

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