Kudos to Google for going too far this April Fool’s day a job well-accomplished this year!
Google didn’t disappoint, keeping with the tradition of their April Fool’s pranks. This year, they carried a unified message with Google’s CADIE, and it would appear that every department got involved in this effort.
CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) is Google’s new I-can-think-for-you artificial intelligence supercomputer. CADIE has been featured on (or has she taken over?) many of the Google properties and blogs.
Given a female persona and voice, CADIE apparently learns and acts from what it sees others doing. Stepping out of a bad technology/”Big Brother” movie, CADIE is able to make decisions for your, based on general socially accepted behavior. Disregarding ethics, completely, CADIE has a tricked-out home page in Blogger that mimmicks many adolescent MySpace pages. CADIE’s YouTube page follows suit, with a great amateurish background. CADIE’s justification is that it’s scraped the Internet, looked at what is socially acceptable and presented “herself” accordingly.
- Google Images,
- GMail (Auto-reply)
- Google Maps
- Google Mobile
- Google Documents
- Google Earth
- Google Knol
- Google Code
- YouTube
- Google on Twitter
- Official Google Blog
- LatLong
- Google Chrome Blog
- Google Code Blog
Did I miss one? Leave me a comment and let me know.
I’ll have a whole wrap-up of the Web’s best April Fools pranks later in the week. If you can’t wait, Search Engine Land has a nice write-up of what’s going on today. Dont’ forget about the annual new products at Think Geek.
Does anyone know where Matt Cutts is today?
Hi! Love that you’re following this. There is also an Australian specific CADIE product – the gBall football! Check it out here http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gball/
The reference is a little hidden but on the “FAQ” page… I think google.com.au had a little *too* much time on their hands for this one 😉
Love and hugs!
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