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Google Pranks America with Google Nose

The popular search engine schools America – or at least one Patch editor – with Google Nose.

Google had no trouble searching for a practical joke.

Today, on April Fool’s Day, the search engine released a video on YouTube about their new product, "Google Nose."

Allegedly, with the feature people can search for smells on the site, and they would be able to smell them off their computer.

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The clip already has more than 250,000 views on Youtube. It is a prank, but it would be cool, right?


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