Google is well-known for its April Fool’s Day jokes, and as the number of Google products has expanded so has the number of hoaxes and the complexity of each one. Google Chrome saw two hoaxes, each riffing on the idea of making Chrome faster.

Google’s media front, and most notably YouTube, has been a hotbed of innovation since Google’s acquisition of the sites (and, yes, even before). That innovation doesn’t stop at productive, user-oriented features, though.

As you likely know, Google has a special logo for on all localized Google properties for what they say is the 119th anniversary of the Ice Cream Sundae. There are two issues that I spotted from users about this special Google Doodle.

Today is the 119th anniversary of the Ice Cream Sundae. For that special day…

Happy 119th anniversary to the ice cream sundae! Yes, 119 years ago, in Ithaca, New York, two men invented the first ice cream sundae.

If you have a lot of urls that you don’t want in Google anymore, you can make the pages return a 404 and wait for Googlebot to recrawl/reindex the pages. This is often the best way. You can also block out an entire directory or a whole site in robots.txt and then use our url removal tool to remove the entire directory from Google’s search results

Everyone loves Sundays, but this sunday is particularly special as Google is celebrating the 119th anniversary of the first documented Ice Cream Sundae. Surprisingly, the ice cream Sundae has a controversial past. It is said to have been invented accidentally

Here’s a recap of this week’s columns and news stories for the week of March 20 to 26, as reported by Search Engine Watch . Click to read the rest of this post..

I’ve never thought about this but a Webmaster in the WebmasterWorld forums felt that whenever Google put up a special logo, aka a Google Doodle…