Google Had to Apologise When Their April Fools Prank Totally Backfired

Publish date: Monday, 4 Apr 2016, 9:53AM

Woops!

So Google love a good April fools prank (obviously) but this year it didn't quite pan out the way it was supposed too.

For April Fools 2016 Google introduced a new tool called 'mic drop' to gmail, where the user could have the last say in an email thread. They would click on it and wouldn't receive any replies thereafter.

Unfortunately, the button replaced Gmail's "Send and archive" option. Some people also reported bugs in which the regular "send" option attached the GIF. As shown above, not every email needs a Minions GIF.

The other issue was that gmail is genuinely used to conduct a lot of business and it was really causing problems for companies.

Google stated in an official apology - "Again, sorry. We love April Fools jokes at Google, and we regret that this joke missed the mark and disappointed you," the company wrote in conclusion.

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