One reads that, for the second year, Google decided to forgo its annual April Fool’s prank:
For the second year in a row, Business Insider has obtained an internal emailstating that Google will not create a series of elaborate and occasionally entertaining April Fools pranks this year. Google confirmed the memo to Business Insider, and to us, too.
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Added additional confirmation from Google. “In 2020, we made the decision to pause our longstanding Google tradition of celebrating April Fools’ Day, out of respect for all those fighting COVID-19. With much of the world still grappling with serious challenges, we will again pause the jokes for April Fools’ Day in 2021,” reads a statement.
For a large corporation like Google, this makes sense: they have an international image to maintain, and many of the markets in which they operate are slogging through the pandemic. (For people in small settings, it’s more a matter of assessing immediate circumstances.)
Next year, in better times, we can look forward to something clever from Google.