Gmail homepage looks weird? anybody notice this?

did anybody notice this? Gmail homepage shows shortened chars

Wlcm t Gml  	
	
Ggl pprch t ml. 	 

Gml s blt n th d tht ml cn b mr nttv, ffcnt, nd sfl. nd myb vn fn. ftr ll, Gml hs: 

PHP:

i am worried because usually gmail doesnt show this type. is everything ok?

 

Probably an april fools joke from Google

 

Today is Gmail's 6th Birthday & it's 1st of April. So do the calculation!

 

man! i thought it was hacked or something!

 

If you logged into Gmail over the last hour (or visited the Gmail homepage), you probably noticed that something looked a bit off: all the vowels are missing. We realize this makes things difficult for all of you who rely on Gmail — whether at home or at work — and we’re incredibly sorry. We take morphological issues like this extremely seriously, so we want to let you all know what happened and what we're doing about it.

At 6:01 am Pacific Time, during routine maintenance at one of our datacenters, the frontend web servers in that particular datacenter started failing to render the letter 'a' for a subset of users. As error rates escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited the damage to the letters 'a,' 'e,' 'i,' 'o,' and 'u.' As a result, we're experiencing Gmail’s first temporary vowel outage. (We’re still investigating whether the letter 'y' is impacted and will post an update here shortly.)

Over the last hour we've received numerous reports of this issue via our help forums, from colleagues at Google, and via email you’ve sent us. Some of you have already found creative workarounds for communicating without vowels, like Aaron, who sent us this:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/todays-vowel-outage.html

 

Haha, "temporary vowel outage". Nice April fools joke.

 

but I have not faced this problem..? No april fools joke for me..

 

April fools buddy!! Google actually has a since of humor.

 

This is yet another "Fools" from Google again. I am surprise to see such a giant business company like Google has much humour sense than I expected. As long as title stated "Gmail: Email from Google" then it would not be any problem for me.

"Gml" by "Gpl" - hehe. They are so real and seriously for this "Fools".

 

Today just before 10 minutes, when i was signing off and signing in again to view documents, Gmail loaded like this


It is given below a link to TODays vowel outage, can you all notice that all the vowels, a,e,i,o,u have been removed from the screen...

 

It means google Celebrating "Aprail Fool Day " Simple

 

I wish they could play with SERPS and my websites higher as april fool lol

 

'Vowel's outage!'.... Wow, that is surely a new term for me! Never heard like this before!
Google is surely spreading good laughter around!

Or.... my website a PR10!

Regards,

RightMan

 

Google is about to get lots of people attentions.
I wonder why they want to waste time for this instead of providing some new unexpected features

 

thats chinese character, nothing special, i can read it though, haha

 

vowel outage A new Term is evolved by Fellow DP Member. Good One...

 

Thanks dude for this wonderful information. I think i have even learned something today.

 

It seems to another prank from Google lol !!!!!!!!!!

Google has done lot of pranks including the 3d googles and the time they show for a search result

 

haha Good joke by Google.....

 

Obviously, google has been an entertainer for many years now, by changing their homepage or doing some good funny pranks on 1st of April