About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Toothing, Google's hoaxes, Beck v. Eiland-Hall, Essjay controversy, ILoo, Lonelygirl15, Wikipedia biography controversy, John Titor, Boilerplate, Chew the fat, Bonsai Kitten, Polybius, Goojje, U.S. Presidential IQ hoax, Mars hoax, Tourist guy, E-mail spoofing, Progesterex, The Franklin Prophecy, Henryk Batuta hoax, Save Toby, Virgle, World Jump Day, Holocaust teaching controversy of 2007, David Ury, Edward Owens, Ong's Hat, Helicopter Shark, Cough CPR, Hellenic Quest, Lustfaust, Masal Bugduv, University of Redwood, Lumber Cartel, ManBeef.com, Dead fairy hoax, Gorgeous Guy, Pacific Northwest tree octopus, Our First Time, Microsoft hoax, Emmet, Computer tan hoax, Izmo Guglich Affair, Document 12-571-3570, Liebermann Inc., Nintendo On, Hanxin, Cambodian Midget Fighting League, Website spoofing, Kaycee Nicole, Project Dawnstar, Iraqi block cipher, Spunkball, Word of Mouth, LoveLump, Glock 3, S-1 block cipher, Lucian Yahoo Dragoman, Chaos cloud, Hotelicopter. Excerpt: Google has a tradition of perpetrating April Fools' Day hoaxes. Google's first April Fools' Day hoax, the MentalPlex hoax, invited users to project a mental image of what they wanted to find whilst staring at an animated gif. Several humourous error messages were then displayed on the search results page, all listed below: Google reveals the technology behind its PageRank Systems-PigeonRank. Google touts the benefits of this cost-effective and efficient means of ranking pages and reassures readers that there is no animal cruelty involved in the process. The article makes many humorous references and puns based on computer terminology and how Google PageRank really works, (for example, a chart showing the pigeons' consumption of linseed and flax, represented as "Lin/Ax Kernels," a pun on the Linux kernel). Fictitious job opportunities for a research center...
