hutcheson - 3:16 pm on Apr 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

>evidence of how much G has moved away from it's origins

Huh? Welcome to planet earth. A year isn't enough time to learn all of our quaint customs. Some of them are silly, but not as silly as the absurd custom of sneering at quaint customs (which is, unfortunately, as well-known on earth as it undoubtedly is on your home planet.)

The Google April Fool goes back to Google origins, just like the special-day logos. Native earthling internet users will remember PigeonRank, Google Moonbase, Direct Brain Interface -- and in fact, there were links to prior years' gags in this year's.