FILE - Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page pose at company headquarters Jan.15, 2004, in Mountain View, Calif. Page and Brin unveiled Gmail 20 years ago on April Fool's Day.

PaLM uses a Transformer model architecture. Credit: Google To ensure that they were novel and unique, all the jokes were created by Google scientists — which explains why they’re not funny.

Google's April Fools’ joke in 2009 was about AI, with Gmail Autopilot and a Brain Search for Mobile. Fifteen years later, it’s bizarre to look back on.

Google caused more headaches for itself than laughs after an April Fool's Day joke in 2016 backfired, leading the company to issue an apology to dissatisfied users.

Everything about the service is blue, and there’s even a video introducing the new technology. For more of Google’s clever April Fool’s Day jokes, see the Los Angeles Times article.

Incidentally, Google-owned YouTube also unveiled its own April Fools’ joke Sunday (a day early), which revealed in a video that the company would be shutting down at midnight so its team of ...

Google and its services, such as YouTube and Gmail, all crashed on Monday morning and the internet couldn't handle it, flooding Twitter with memes and jokes. The widespread outage, which has since ...