April Fool’s Day is certainly upon us and Google has decided to get a little kooky with its search result times
Normally displayed at the top of the search results in seconds, the US firm has decided to mess about with its measurements for April 1.
Tests show a search for the BBC comes through in 0.23 microweeks, while an Easter egg search comes back in 0.90e-15 epochs.
The most comical so far though has to be a search for choking which was returned at 0.35 times the velocity of an unladen swallow.
Google also announced soon after midnight that it had decided to change its company name to Topeka, in recognition of a town in Kansas which changed its name to Google last month.
The unofficial name change was a publicity stunt to highlight Topeka’s application to take part in Google’s ultra-high-speed broadband experiment.