Google April Fools Day 2012

• For Google, April Fools Day is the annual launch day for a slew of gag products and hoax services you'll likely never see in real life.
(searchenginewatch.com)
• 2012: NASCAR and Google today confirmed what many expected throughout the morning – the two companies working together to bring autonomous vehicle technology to NASCAR race cars was Google's very popular, annual April Fools' Day joke.
(NASCAR And Google Confirm April Fools Day Joke - The Auto Chanel)
• Yes, for one day an April Fools Day hoax. The full article goes on to explain that spaghetti was not widely eaten in Britain at that time. It was considered an exotic food and hence most people had no idea of its origins.
(Salon)
• Miss your old Nintendo? The engineers at Google clearly do.
(Forbes)
• Google has expanded its April Fools' Day faux functionality this year with a bunch of hoax services that will keep users occupied if not productive.
(Bangor Daily News)
• Mayor Rahm Emanuels press office is marking April Fools Day with a funny release Below, the Emanuel April Fools Release.
(Chicago Sun-Times (blog))
• Happy April 1st, Everybody! It's that very special time of year — the day when tech companies break out their clown shoes to make their annual attempt at being funny.
(TechCrunch)
• Especially on April Fools Day, when the World Wide Web off a day early with a supposed port of Google Maps to Nintendos 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System.
(CNET News)
• If the classic video game recreation of its maps application isnt enough indication, Google is a big fan of April Fools Day. Consider some of the other announcements the Internet giant is making today: The self-driving NASCAR ride.
(USA Today)
• A voyage into the center of a volcano, double-moused computer scrolling and a self-driving NASCAR bid are just some of the jokes played by pranksters on April Fool programs, Google has continued their tradition of revelling in the day of mayhem.
(Daily Mail)