Google said that given the current situation, they should be focused on helping fight COVID-19, rather than prepare prank.
Google has always been "Tricky" in the user's traditional April Fool's Day prank in its products with elaborate, but this year due to a serious threat to the new crown pneumonia, Google decided to suspend the program.
According to internal e-mail obtained by Business Insider , Google in order to express respect for all people and COVID-19 protest, the traditional April Fools' Day prank will be suspended for one year. Currently their top goal is to provide help for people, so plan to stay until the hoax next April, which will undoubtedly be better than the present.
Google marketing director Lorraine Twohill this went on to add an e-mail saying they have stopped any work related to the marketing team of the Fool's Day prank, but taking into account the company's other teams they do not understand there may be some small projects, for which he appealed these teams have also been terminated to ensure that planned prank, internal or external, whether in.
Whether you like this April Fool's Day prank Internet companies, we had to admit that Google's decision is a wise decision. With the severity of the health crisis sweeping the United States and around the world, Imagine, if Google continues April Fool's Day playing a trick and mislead the user, and Google search, YouTube, Gmail, or add extra key products such as maps and misleading function , not only does not help to fight the epidemic, Google's reputation will collapse.
PS Google April Fools' Day prank is one of the oldest traditional technology companies in the April 1 to promote the Internet.