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"That was part of the charm, making a product that people won't believe is real."

SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools Day not long after starting their

The company had been known for rolling out outlandish ideas every April Fools’ Day, so people learned to laugh off its jokes and assumed the free service — which boasted 1 gigabyte of storage per account, a preposterous amount of email capacity back then — was just another example of Google mischief. “That was part of the charm, making a product that people won’t believe is real. It kind of changed people’s perceptions about the kinds of applications that were possible within a web ...

It was such a mind-bending concept that shortly after the Associated Press published a story about Gmail late on the afternoon of April Fools’ 2004, readers began calling and emailing to inform the news agency it had been duped by Google’s pranksters.

"That was part of the charm, making a product that people won't believe is real."

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago.

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day.

From 13-inch ultraportables to 18-inch gaming juggernauts, theres a lot of different screen sizes to choose from when buying a laptop. Toms Guide editors discuss: Which is best, and for what?

When it launched 20 years ago, Google's free mail service Gmail was considered a prank, yet soon, with Google Maps and the arrival of YouTube and...

"The original pitch we put together was all about the three Ss" - storage, search and speed," said former Google executive Marissa Mayer, who helped design Gmail and other company products before later becoming Yahoos CEO.