The company is known for doing a few innocent jokes on this day every year but one of this year’s pranks seriously backfired and it has been pulled in the face of user outrage. That’s the Gmail Mic ...

Corporations love jumping in on April Fools’ Day, and Google is no exception. In fact, they might be one of the most prank-happy corporations out there. But this year’s April Fools’ Gmail prank isn’t ...

The only thing Google loves more than creating doodles on random anniversaries is April Fools’ Day. Google went too far with one Gmail prank during the 2016 online laugh-fest, however. Before you ...

Google's April Fool's gag for Gmail this year was an alternative send option named the Mic Drop. Through the feature, sent emails will include a GIF of Despicable Me Minion dropping a microphone, and ...

Pushing people’s buttons! Amid serious backlash, Google has disabled their disastrous “mic drop” April Fools’ joke button that added a GIF animation of a Minion to emails and muted all replies ...

Gmail has been forced to pull its April Fool gag after just a few hours after users complained it had "got them in trouble" and "cost them a job". Google introduced Mic Drop in a blog post late last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A royal Minion dropping a mic in your Gmail inbox is the last thing you see before you get fired. That was the case for Allan ...

I hate to be a kill joy, but I think the traditional of internet firms playing April Fool’s jokes may have just jumped the shark. As is their tradition, Google launched a number of April Fool’s tricks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout his eight years in office, President Obama has achieved many things, but today he eclipsed all of them when his ...

Google’s April Fools’ Day prank for Gmail backfired in spectacular style today after users claimed that it caused them to inadvertently offend friends and family—and in some cases led to lost jobs.

Google has retracted its ‘mic drop’ option from Gmail after complaints from its users, just a few hours after the feature was added for April Fools’ day. “It looks like we pranked ourselves this year, ...