Google April Fools' Day 2012: The 7 Greatest Gags This Year (VIDEOS)

Google has had some April Fool's Day classics over the years.

Who can forget the 2007 TiSP, "a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system." And what about Gmail Paper, a service that Google said would allow Gmail users to request paper copies (via postal service, of course) of their emails?

But for 2012, the web giant may have outdone itself, announcing gag products related to its ultra high-speed fiber network, self-driving car, Mapping application, YouTube and more. By our count, Google's responsible for more than a dozen April Fool's Day pranks this year, many accompanied by videos explaining the "new" products and services. (Our two favorites: the Morse Code typing app Gmail Tap and the 8-bit Google Maps quest.)

Check out the slideshow below to see what Google gave us for April Fool's Day 2012, and let us know in the comments below which one you think is the year's best:

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[carford08]

05:46 PM on 04/03/2012

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[Ehsan Khorasani]

03:32 PM on 04/03/2012

Is it weird that I really want the Multitasking thing... It would be really cool to have two mouse!

[k-watanabe]

02:49 PM on 04/03/2012

Was that LL Cool J in Gmail Tap ?

[Joe3245]

04:21 PM on 04/03/2012

Yes it was.

[RRtreerat]

11:28 AM on 04/03/2012

Tap to me dirty, 8bit style!

[Christine Fletcher Webb]

09:17 PM on 04/02/2012

Gmail tap...too funny!

[HoverTroll]

08:56 PM on 04/02/2012

#6 "simply blow in the cartridge to remove bugs" Comedy gold right there for anyone who was a master of blowing into those things without getting any spit into the thing.

[Klarke]

08:25 PM on 04/02/2012

They actually are making a self-driving car
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?pagewanted=all

[Master-T]

06:00 PM on 04/02/2012

How about the one where Google actually shows respect for user privacy? LOL - that was the funniest one of all!!

[TheIpsoFactory]

07:17 AM on 04/02/2012

They are all great cause they are so polished.
I can see some sort of Gmail Tap app hit the cyber shelves one day - retro fans will embrace this novelty, especially if it comes with old fashioned sound effects.

Di-di-di-diiih-di-di-diiih

[Tom95134]

11:15 PM on 04/01/2012

Gmail Tap...

An obvious concession to all the old Amateur Radio Operators who are still brass pounders... both of them.

[Tom95134]

11:12 PM on 04/01/2012

"The Street Roo"... a ripper mate.

[waqarhassan41]

11:08 PM on 04/01/2012

I think this is the best video for april fool day but i think maybe youtube launch this programme in the future so plz wait a little...............thanks for sharing it.

http://yougeo.com/

[no exit]

10:52 PM on 04/01/2012

I don't know how they keep a straight face when doing these - they're hilarious!

[bmattix]

09:54 PM on 04/01/2012

How about the April Fool article TechCrunch posted this morning about a Foxconn plant going to Iowa that has hundreds of poor souls sharing online, thinking 300,000 manufacturing jobs are coming to US?

[ramblingjohnny]

05:34 PM on 04/01/2012

The youtube collection really push it far you can actually order it! Well you can try! loll