Published 19:52 IST, March 31st 2020
Google scraps April Fools' Day plans this year amid coronavirus pandemic
The Google management encouraged the staff to refrain from jokes in an email amid the time of hardships when people were dealing with deaths and devastation.
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Google has reportedly announced that it is cancelling its 2020 April Fool's Day plans due to coronavirus pandemic in an email obtained by a news media outlet. It declared that re wouldn’t be any pranks in view of helping those battling with crisis with accurate information, and paying tribute to many lives lost to COVID-19 disease. management encouraged staff to refrain from jokes in an email amid time of hardships, as per media report.
A public relations expert at Google was quoted as saying that April Fool’s Day pranks might be viewed as insensitive in such challenging times when health professionals were exhausted at ir capacity. re were death and devastation from novel coronavirus, he ded. At time, when public was desperately looking for information on virus, health, and wellbeing, any attempt at jokes can result in misleing people and damage brand’s reputation, PR expert reportedly said.
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Popular "Google Tulip" from 2019
Last year, company me at least four announcements to celebrate occasion. It allowed users online to play snake games on Google maps. users h to hit hamburger button provided on top left of app n choose play. snake from different ethnicity—Cairo, London, Japan was me available on Android and iOS for at least a week.
In anor joke, Google introduced file cleaner app that worked “geometric dirt models, combined with haptic micromovement pulses, to dislodge what’s stuck to your screen.” most popular, however, was Google tulip, in which company tricked users to speak with flower. It said that tulip was a great listener and gave excellent vice. “Thanks to great vancements in artificial intelligence, Google Home is now able to understand tulips, allowing translation between Tulipish and dozens of human languages,” Google wrote in a blog post, in an April fool’s stunt.
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20:01 IST, March 31st 2020