Google steps up its April Fools game, writes Android app for the occasion

Google's known for taking April Fools' Day pranks just a little more seriously than most, but it's managed to outdo itself this year by creating a very real Android app to accompany this year's ruse that you can download right now. The concept -- Animal Translator -- is almost believable, until you realize that your average hamster doesn't have a library card to pick up Hitchhiker's Guide. Follow the break for Google's video intro.

[bwhite Posted Apr 1st 2010 12:18AM]

What makes this funny, is the people actually believing that it works. Read the comments on the Marketplace. Hirarious.

[BigKing Posted Apr 1st 2010 1:22AM]

@bwhite
You better be joking

[owen66 Posted Apr 1st 2010 5:20AM]

@bwhite it's google, so i wouldn't put it past them to create fake users/responses to give the full effect

[Part Four Posted Apr 1st 2010 12:23AM]

You almost had me there!

[mrsantovalentino Posted Apr 1st 2010 12:52AM]

But what's the Ultimate Question?

[demonicpascal Posted Apr 1st 2010 12:59AM]

Oh Google, your tomfoolery never ceases to amuse

[allnighter Posted Apr 1st 2010 1:00AM]

This is why Google fu**ing rocks!

[allnighter Posted Apr 1st 2010 1:06AM]

All these years I always suspected my turtle Nancy understood exactly how I felt and - I know! Luv you Googs!

[Johnny Rockets Posted Apr 1st 2010 1:36AM]

Put this ad on television and you might sell some N1's Google.

(FFS advertise on TV please!)

[MGDdrinker Posted Apr 1st 2010 2:18AM]

Google's insistence that the Nexus One had multitouch even though it wasn't implemented was much funnier than this.

[normanb20 Posted Apr 1st 2010 11:41AM]

@MGDdrinker
Didn't they insist that it was multitouch capable, and isn't it?

[normanb20 Posted Apr 1st 2010 11:45AM]

@MGD
How did it not have multitouch? From the beginning there was xscope browser and that gallery, and the piano. All multitouch!

[MGDdrinker Posted Apr 1st 2010 12:28PM]

@MGDdrinker
Okay, what I should of said is: Google's reluctance to embrace multitouch on the Nexus One was funnier than this.

engadget.com/2009/12/18/googles-nexus-one-lacks-multitouch/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/rubin-on-adding-multitouch-to-the-nexus-one-well-consider-it/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/andy-rubin-on-multitouch-in-android-i-personally-dont-like-tw/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/nexus-one-gets-a-software-update-enables-multitouch/

[zeroleonheart Posted Apr 1st 2010 12:52PM]

@MGDdrinker "I'm not a troll. I swear. April Fools!! I am!" We know, MGDdrinker, we know.

[urs74 Posted Apr 1st 2010 3:41PM]

Sucks it's not on the Canadian Android Market at least when I just now searched it nothing came up.

[sirphunkee Posted Apr 1st 2010 5:47PM]

@urs74

There's animals in Canada....?

[urs74 Posted Apr 1st 2010 8:18PM]

@sirphunkee Beaver and moose and Polar Bears in the sewers

[zuht Posted Apr 2nd 2010 1:43AM]

It's actually called "Translate for Animals" if you're looking for it on the Market.