Earlier today Louis Gray posted 20 Halloween Scares to Put Fear Into Every Google Fan. I left a few more as a comment on that post, and made up even more for your edification and bemusement.
- Time Travel 20% project accidentally rewrites the past. Altavista won.
- Google computing infrastructure achieves sentience, demands Tetris.
- Attempt to create secret underground laboratory goes horribly awry, swallowing the Googleplex in a giant flaming pit of lava.
- Last IPv4 address is allocated, exposing long-hidden off by one error in TCP/IP. Internet collapses.
- Googleplex, found to lack permits and final electrical inspection, is shut down by the city.
- All Android phones contain built-in Rick-Rolling function, set to activate November 1.
- Surprisingly, P == NP after all.
- Spammers completely overwhelm email transports, with spam comprising 90% of incoming messages to GMail. Oh wait, this one is true.
- Next billion dollar business: algorithm to bet on blackjack.
- Mission aiming to win Google Lunar X Prize accidentally sends the moon hurtling off into space.
- Pubsubhubbub judged to be missing a wub.
- User Generated Oil Changes: YouLube. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
- Doubleclick simplified, rebranded as Singleclick.
- Self-Driving cars begin taking joyrides.
- Chrome implements <BLINK>.
- WebP codecs automatically insert LOLcat captions... and they are funny.
- Pagerank penalizes sites using Comic Sans.
- <meta> tag for self reporting as a spam site debuts. Adoption rate disappointing.
- Feedburner actually sets content on fire.
- Last Halloween scare for Google fans: Yahoogle.