Check out Google Books 'Scratch and Sniff' at the bottom. I think there's a book there we could all use in Scratch and Sniff format.
2008
Yogurt
Google's Orkut displays its name as Yogurt (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=778183)
Virgle
Google announces a joint project with the Virgin Group that aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. This operation has been named Project Virgle. it also includes videos of Richard Branson as well as Larry Page & Sergey Brin (The Founders of Google) on YouTube , talking about Virgle.[1]
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html
Dajare
Google launches Dajare in Japan (google.co.jp), with the mission of "organizing the world’s laughter." [2]
gDay
Google announces gDay in Australia, a new beta search technology that will search web pages 24 hours before they are created.
http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/press.html
Google Dialect Translation
Google announces Google 사투리 번역 (Google dialect translation) for translating regional dialects of Korean to and from Standard Korean.[3]
Gmail Custom Time
Gmail's sign-in page announced a new feature, called Gmail Custom Time, that would allow its users to "pre-date" their messages and choose to have the message appear as "read" or "unread".
Around 11:00 p.m. EST March 31, 2008, on the newer and older version of Gmail, but not in the basic HTML version, in the upper right corner, next to Settings, a link appeared labeled, "New! Gmail Custom Time". The link led to a 404 error until April 1,[4] [5] when it led to the full Gmail Custom Time hoax page[2]. Clicking any of the three links at the bottom of the page brought the user to a page stating that Gmail Custom time was, in fact, their April Fool's day joke.[6]
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
Google Calendar is Feeling Lucky
Google added the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button to its calendar feature. When you tried to create a new event, you were given the regular option of entering the correct details and hitting "Create Event," and also the new option of "I'm Feeling Lucky" which would set you up with an evening date with, among others, Matt Damon, Eric Cartman, Tom Cruise, Jessica Alba, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, Anna Kournikova, Johnny Depp, George W. Bush, or Lois Griffin.
Google Wake Up Kit
Google launched their "Wake Up Kit" as a calendar notification option. The option sends a series of increasingly aggressive alerts, starting with an SMS message to your cellphone, and ending with a bucket of water dumped into your bed, which would then flip over, tossing you out (all using apparently-free equipment).
http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html
Google Docs
A little easter egg was added, where a user can click the file menu and directly under new document is "New Airplane" which immediately opens a copy of a Google branded paper airplane. To reach the file menu, click the new menu, then "Document" then a new window opens.
Google Manpower Search
Google launches Manpower Search (谷歌人肉;搜索) in China (google.cn). This new feature is powered by 25 million volunteers who do the searching around the clock. When the user entered a keyword, volunteers will search any possible answers from a mass of paper documents as well as online resources. The user is expected to get the search result within 32 seconds.
http://www.google.cn/intl/zh-CN/renrou/index.html
Google Books 'Scratch and Sniff'
Google Books has a new section allowing users to 'scratch and sniff' certain books. Users are asked to "...please place your nose near the monitor and click 'Go'" which then 'loads odours'. When clicking on 'Help' users are redirected to a Google Book page entitled "Belgravia: A London Magazine"
http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp
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