April Fool’s Day 2006 & Search

I don’t do any work over the weekends, so I’m playing some catch-up on
Saturday’s April Fool’s Madness in the search world. What have we got?

  • Google Romance was launched
    by Google.
     
  • RhymeRank
    was unveiled by Ask.
     
  • MSN Search Spoof was either resurrected from
    last year
    or rediscovered by those hoping for an April Fool’s prank from MSN.
     
  • Yahoo seems to have taken the weekend off, like me.
     
  • Google’s Matt Cutts
    went to work for Yahoo
    , while…
     
  • Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny
    went to work for
    Google
    , while…
     
  • MSN Microsoft Windows Live’s Robert Scoble

    went to work for Google
    as well.
     
  • Google

    launches
    new "larger than life" display ads along with one-pixel sales.
     
  • Google launches
    Google Rooms.
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