Yeah, it’s probably a copyright violation on some level, but here’s a song called “Just Google”, to the tune of Michael Jackson’s Beat It: Funny stuff.
This isn’t the first Google song. Check out “Talking About Google” and Saturday Night Live’s “Goo Goo Googling Him”.
(via Amit Agarwal)
Also, take a look at this April Fools announcement from Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone regarding A

The April Fools’ Jokes in Search have already been well covered. In my blog reading today, I’ve only seen one mention of social sites’ April Fools’ jokes. Here’s what Facebook creators thought was funny (with my friends’ info anonymized): Any readers catch any other April Fools’ jokes by social sites?
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Oh, god, another April Fools Day! Yikes, you won’t believe how many websites are running pranks today already… Google has launched “Gmail Paper“, a new service that will print out any email from Gmail, including text attachments, and mail you the printouts, completely for free. The service is monetized by giant text ads on the backs of the paper, written in bold, red, 36-point Helvetica. “You click. We stack.

Niall Kennedy did earlier this month an exhaustive analysis of Google Gadgets, coming out with a lot of graphs, facts and figures that would make your head spin. If you’re a geek for infoporn, you’ll love his post on it.
A taste: The average Gadget is 181 pixels
20 or so Gadgets require you to be using Firefox
Google’s 48 Gadgets account for 44% of all Gadget page views More stats at this post, too.
Alex Iskold did a look at

Looks like Google needs to get their scanners fixed. This is how the front cover of this book should look like…
[thanks tenz]

I am so sick of the news on this blog being, on average, a week old. Its my fault. I let these tabs build and build and build, and I don’t have time to write because I’m too busy amassing tabs, and when I finally do write something, it’s a week old. Dammit! I am so not doing this anymore. I hate missing news, but it is beyond stupid to have late and irellevant news because you don’t want to miss anything.
And because

Oh, please, tell me what I am seeing is not really what I am seeing - is that the Loch Ness Monster? (by the beach, that’s a bit weird)
Google has got some special easter eggs in the new themes that they added to Google Home Page today, and that’s one of them.
When you go to Google Personalized Home Page on 3:14 am, and you have chose one of the new themes (except Bus Stop and Classic), you will see something special. Seasonal Scape

SEO Refuge has a post poking fun at Search Engine Optimizers, in the inimitable style of Jeff Foxworthy, as in: “You might be an SEO if…”. You’ll have to go there to read them all, but here’s one:
You might be an SEO if… “You hear that someone lives in a “bad neighborhood” and make a mental note to never link to them.”
Not only did he write a funny post, he tagged a few others in the SEO community, including (one quote each) Yuri:
If “whenever

YouTube announced last week a deal with Digital Music Group to bring that company’s archive of old TV shows to YouTube. Digital owns over 40 hours of video content, including a bunch of old TV shows and movies, mostly from the 1960s, including “I Spy”, “Gumby” and “My Favorite Martian”

Here’s a funny little hack: Someone figured out that a little bit of JavaScript can make the Google logo fly around your web browser. Just visit Google.com and paste this code in your address bar:
javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval(’A()’,5); void(0);
Watch it in action:

(via Beep Me > Digg)
Also worth mentioning: There’s a Google Doodle today for Valentine’s Day:

As more than one person has asked me today, where’s the “l” in Google? My guess: It’s the stem.
UPDATE: Looks like I was right

The Ask.com blog has a funny post about the failure of a Google product: Their Google-branded pen. If the post is to be taken seriously (and, oh god, don’t), the loss of ink from the pen is a major failure of Google product design and has contributed to chaos in Ask’s offices. They even did the standard Google troubleshooting tip of asking Matt Cutts, but nothing seems to have worked.
“I should have known better than to use a free Google product for business purposes.” Scott told us in a recent interview

Some funny Google Maps sightings in the last day or so:
First off, a bug in the directions system in Google Maps sent drivers into a tail-spin, with Google instructing them to make well over 200 u-turns. Yikes!
A screenshot of the first 28 steps in the process, courtesy of Kandarp:

Don’t worry, Google’s already fixed it, but I heard there was a major traffic incident in New Jersey yesterday involving 8,500 dizzy drivers

Found this via Michael Arrington. I agree it’s a great way to build buzz. It’s the funniest video I’ve seen in ages.
Has mildly bad language…

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Thanks to Jason Schramm’s quest to be the top Schramm when people search for Schramms, I discovered a cool site at nathan.com. The site, run by Nathan Shedroff, has a page that links to every Nathan on the internet, including now myself, and is the top site on Google for “nathan“

Happy stuff for me: The Bruce Clay Inc. blog has added comments, after much prodding from me (and maybe other people, but who cares?). The Bruce Clay blog has been one of my favorites the last few months, with really good articles (mostly written by Lisa Barone) plus a fun “Friday recap” every week

If you know the right questions, Google will show you how to rent a French call girl named Olga for “an exciting and passionate night”, at your place or hers. Holy hookers, Batman, Google is now a pimp!
What’s going on? Well, Google has a service called Google Q&A that they introduced way back in April of ‘05, that algorithmically pulls vital data from trusted sources and puts it above the regular search results as an instant answer, similar to what Ask or other search engines do

VideoSift has created a site counting down the top 100 web videos of 2006, 99 of which are from YouTube and Google Video (mostly just YouTube). Here are my favorites of the entire list, which can provide hours of time-wasting entertainment:
#38 - Brilliant Mime Routine + Natalie Imbruglia

Via: VideoSift
#52 - David Blaine Street Magic - SATIRE

Via: VideoSift
#98 - a couple gets kinky in the bedroom

Via: VideoSift
#43 - Monkeys - A Short Movie About What We Are

Via: VideoSift
#90 - adorable animated dog takes care of baby, loves cheese

Via: VideoSift
#8 - judson laipply: evolution of dance

Via: VideoSift
57 - Must love jaws

Via: VideoSift
#93 - Casting for the Xbox360 “Shootout” Commercial

Via: VideoSift
#30 - Simpsons Live!

Via: VideoSift
#42 - The Internet: “A Series of Tubes”

Via: VideoSift
#45 - Trick-or-Treater Scared Witless by Dummy Scarecrow - Poor Fellow (15 secs)

Via: VideoSift
#12 - Best home made lightsaber duel ever!
Via: VideoSift
#80 - I think this Xbox is the best present I ever bought for you
Via: VideoSift
#99 - Progenitorivox - the drugs I need

Via: VideoSift
#37 - Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV

Via: VideoSift
#53 - This Kid Wants Someone To Play Football With Him

Via: VideoSift
#33 - The Art of Motion - Nice Stop Motion Action
Via: VideoSift
#87 - “There will come soft rains” animation of Ray Bradbury story

Via: VideoSift
#85 - Animated short - Gerald wakes as a woman (en femme) (warning: nsfw? animated boobs)

Via: VideoSift
#64 - Broken Escalator: Somebody help me - please! There are two people stuck on an escalator and we need help!

Via: VideoSift
#25 - stephen colbert swallows a banana and totally loses it

Via: VideoSift
#56 - Roller Coaster + Bowling == Fun

Via: VideoSift
#35 - Skateboarding Dog

Via: VideoSift
#44 - Rube Goldberg - amazing.

Philipp did a funny post replacing parts of famous movie quotes with “Google”, Google products, or things related to Google. I tried a few more in his forum, and creating Google movie moments is not only easy, it’s a lot of fun. You can head to any movie quotes website, and get to work!
Hint: The more “inside baseball” you go, the funnier it is.
Jane: I’ve heard search work is dangerous.
Frank: It is

Google held last Friday its first Pajama Day, when workers were encouraged to wear their PJs to work. According to Robert Cringely, the event was described as a beta test for the future, and those from “cultures where pajamas are not worn” had a special exemption. Googler Kimbalina posted a photo of her PJ pants and slippers, which blended in well with the carpet.
One Googler’s wife posted a picture of herself standing with her husband, both in their PJs, him having just returned home from work

I’m gonna need more cowbell!
Gmail’s got an easter egg of an emoticon, one that is definitely a reference to a great SNL sketch starring Christopher Walkin. Just enter +/’\ into a Gmail chat window and hit enter. Enjoy!
Courtesy of Daniel and KP in the comments.
I got a fever. And the only prescription… is more cowbell!

Blogger Dean Hunt got an odd request from a commercial website, asking him to remove his blog from Google, since he was starting to outrank that site. Its possibly the oddest SEO strategy I’ve ever seen; rather than trying to get more links, or buy ads, this site just asked the competition to get out of the way, and seemed to think Google would help them out.
On Thursday morning I checked our google positions and your site is now above us for this term

JibJab, the guys who did the great “This Land” Flash cartoon, have released a 2006 year-in-review cartoon called “Nuckin’ Futs” about everything crazy that happened this year. It’s real good, but I’m mentioning it because Google shows up about 58 seconds in:
… and the Google guys bought YouTube for a couple billion bucks!

Watch it here:

Nuckin’ Futs - The JibJab Year in Review | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab
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Philipp wrote a funny post giving all the worst advice you can get about Google. Looks like you can only write about Google and give great advice for so long before you just go off the deep end and decide to steer your readers off a cliff. Philipp’s got everything, including how to get banned by Google, how to get ignored, how to lose AdSense money, and, of course, which sites to avoid if you don’t want Google news (I’m on the list). Funny stuff.

If you liked the last showdown of Google Video, YouTube and Revver, then you’ll love Chris Pirillo’s latest: This time, he’s taking it to the nines. Nine video networks (MSN Soapbox, YouTube, Breaky, Vimeo, Jumpcut, Blip, Metacafe, Revver and iFilm) all playing the same video of Chris singing Jingle Bells with his dogs. Ok, it isn’t as good as the original, because the videos aren’t yelling at each other (and in this form, we could have had a scene straight out of the Brady Bunch opener), but it is fun nevertheless.
I wonder why Google Video got left out?

Here’s a semi-funny YouTube video about one YouTuber who headed down to the Googleplex and got an exclusive sit-down with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, “revealing” that Google will pay anyone who uploaded a YouTube video a share of the $1.65 billion purchase price, based on the number of views their video had.

Naturally, some people actually believed it, and started calculating how much money they were due for their videos. Sorry, but it looks like sitting in front of a webcam and lipsyncing songs may never be the path to megadollars we hoped it would be.
(via Digg)

Something’s gone wrong at Chris Pirillo’s blog, because some of the major video sharing sites are engaged in an all out-brawl! To understand, just click play on all three videos, as quickly together as you can:

Wow, that was crazy… Now, if only Chris could find a way to add MSN Soapbox, and do it all as a 2×2 grid, and maybe have the “characters” do things that affected the other videos, that would be perfect. I could watch this all day.
Hmm… Is there a way to loop them?

Comedy.com has “archived” how Google.com looked in 1988, complete with ASCII porn, a less complicated version of Tetris, and proof that Drudge has been using that annoying flashing light forever. Funny stuff.
(via Ronen)

This is a known “exploit” in almost any click-to-call system, but Valleywag is highlighting how easy it is to connect friends/enemies with embaressing businesses, thanks to Google Maps. Basically, find something in Google Maps your friend would feel weird getting a phone call from (like a sex addiction phone line, or the Republican National Committee), and click-to-call