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Google Got Me Again
Google is famous for its insidious April Fool's pranks - just clever enough to get you excited for their new product, be it Google Nose, Google Maps in 8-Bit, or Gmail Tap, which turns your keyboard into a 2 button morse code system.
This year was no different, except I got really and truly taken - just for a second. The key to a good April Fools joke is knowing your audience. And if there's anything Google knows about web publishers, it's that we obsessively track our traffic. So imagine my excitement when I saw the spike in readers coming from - what - the International Space Station. The bubble bounces around the globe, just like the real ISS.
But guess what those crazy Cosmonauts are looking at:
Well played Google Analytics team.
Did you get pwned this year? What's your favorite Google prank?
Jen Boynton is the former Editor-in-Chief of TriplePundit. She has an MBA in Sustainable Management from the Presidio Graduate School and has helped organizations including SAP, PwC and Fair Trade USA with their sustainability communications messaging. She is based in San Diego, California. When she's not at work, she volunteers as a CASA (court appointed special advocate) for children in the foster care system. She enjoys losing fights with toddlers and eating toast scraps. She lives with her family in sunny San Diego.
