{"id":649839,"date":"2013-04-01T11:54:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=223227"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:54:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:54:02","slug":"april-fools-prank-lets-you-renovate-your-house-on-street-view-google-schmick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649839","title":{"rendered":"April Fools\u2019 Prank Lets You Renovate Your House On Street View [Google SCHMICK]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google, as usual, has plenty of April Fools’ pranks today. One that Google revealed on the Google Australia blog promises to let you renovate your house on Street View with “Google SCHMICK” .<\/p>\n

“Now you can give your house a lick of fresh paint for free on Street View with Google SCHMICK (Simple Complete House Makeover Internet Conversion Kit),” writes<\/a> Google Apps manager Andrew Mitchell. “Forgot to mow the nature strip? Deck it out with some fresh buffalo grass. Front steps falling down? Swap them out for doric columns and a pergola. Graffiti on the front fence? Cover it with so many palm trees people will think they\u2019re on the Vegas strip.”<\/p>\n

“Feeling patriotic? Why not fly the Australian flag, leave some lamingtons out for Skippy or permanently switch on \u2018Night View\u2019 to place the Southern Cross directly above your inner city terrace. Perhaps, you\u2019ll choose to add in a sheep or two and a kangaroo like Uncle Burke, throw in a miniature replica of Coffs Harbour\u2019s Big Banana, or \u2018go international\u2019 and throw the Big Ben on top of that new second story you\u2019ve just added to your house,” writes Mitchell. <\/p>\n

This one actually is an April Fools’ prank. Google has gone to greater lengths with some of its April Fools’ offerings. You can actually use Google Nose<\/a> (to some extent), for example. They made a game out of Google Maps Treasure Mode<\/a>. The SCHMICK landing page<\/a>, however, is just a message letting you know what day it is. <\/p>\n

\n<\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google, as usual, has plenty of April Fools’ pranks today. One that Google revealed on the Google Australia blog promises to let you renovate your house on Street View with “Google SCHMICK” . “Now you can give your house a lick of fresh paint for free on Street View with Google SCHMICK (Simple Complete House […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}