American Bazaar site “accessed” from space.
By American Bazaar Staff
The American Bazaar is popular not just among earthlings, it is also read by the denizens of the International Space Station! At least, that is what Google Analytics, the service offered by the search engine giant that provides statistics about a website’s traffic and traffic sources to webmasters, told us on the eve of the April Fools’ Day.
On Sunday evening around 8:30 EDT, Google Analytics showed that 41 users were accessing the American Bazaar content from the control room of the International Space Station. (See the images.)
We were excited for a few seconds, before Google brought us down to earth. It was nothing but an April Fools’ prank, a closer look at the Analytics revealed.
We are not the only ones that the nerds at Google tried to trick on April Fools’ Day.
One of the pranks that garnered a lot of attention on Sunday was Google’s “announcement” that YouTube was an eight-year long contest and the popular video site was going to be shut down. See the CNET story on it here.
Knowing Google, one shouldn’t have been surprised by the jokes. In fact, it has such a long history of being a prankster that Wikipedia has a 12,500-word entry on its hoaxes.
When it comes to international and historic events, Google is not known for missing any of them. Be it birthdays, milestones or celebration of personalities, the site routinely showcases them on its homepage.
For instance, anyone visiting www.google.com on Easter Sunday was greeted by the doodle of Latino American civil rights activist Cesar Chavez. According to Google, its team has “created over 1,000 doodles for our homepages around the world.” Read more about Google’s doodles here.