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 ...

Alphabet Inc's ( GOOG, GOOGL) Google tried to be funny this year with its April Fool Day's prank, but it didn't go well. Google updated Gmail today with a feature called "Mic Drop" that let users end ...

Take a trip backward in time with me to April Fools’ Day 2016, when Google decided to prank its users with a terrible new feature: an animated GIF featuring those yellow Tic Tacs we all know and ...

Google's plans for a funny April Fool's prank apparently backfired big time. Earlier today, Google announced what it called "Gmail Mic Drop," a send-button feature that added a gif of a little yellow ...

On April Fools’ Day, the joke was on Google. The tech giant ended up with egg on its face after facing a backlash from folks who saw nothing funny with its Gmail tomfoolery – with some claiming it ...

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 ...

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, ...

Google attempted to prank its Gmail users for April Fools Day this year, but it seems like it created more tears than laughs. On Thursday, a new “send + mic drop” button appeared next to the “send” ...

Anybody could have told you that Google’s email prank today was going to go wrong. How Google itself didn’t see it coming is kind of amazing and mind-boggling. Let’s back up. Gmail’s prank seems ...

NEW YORK — Google is acknowledging that it pranked itself after an April Fool's Day Gmail tweak angered some people who use Google's email for work. Universal Pictures via Google.com Universal ...

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 ...