On April Fools, Matt Cutts, the on leave head of Google's search quality team, announced a new spam tool named AutoSEO. He said you can request to be part of a limited beta and provided this form to fill out. Here is a picture of the form:
Over 3,000 people requested a beta invite to Matt's fake AutoSEO tool. That is pretty impressive for a real tool, let alone an April Fools prank.
Jennifer Slegg asked Matt and he responded a few days later saying on Twitter:
@jenstar over 3,000 people so far.
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) April 4, 2015I have to be honest, I filled it out, but only because I thought the April Fools prank would be more elaborate. I thought that either immediately after I filled it out or hours later, I would get some sort of follow up April Fools prank. Nope, nothing yet. Who knows, maybe it will work itself into a prank for April Fools 2016?
But anyway, it is pretty impressive to get 3,000 beta requests for fake software, let alone real software.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
