Form an orderly queue; Google is hiring Autocompleters for its Instant Search tool. If you have psychic tendencies and an average 32,000 WPM typing speed then you could be next in line to work for the search engine super giant:

“As a Google Autocompleter, you’ll be expected to successfully guess a user’s intention as he or she starts typing instantly. In a fraction of a second, you’ll need to type in your prediction that will be added to the list of suggestions given by Google. Don’t worry, after a few million predictions you’ll grow the required reflexes.”

Except this, of course, is no ordinary job description. This is one of Google’s celebrated April Fools’ Day pranks.

Yes, last Friday was April 1st and, whilst the Propellernet team managed to refrain from any Fool-based naughtiness, Google couldn’t resist a few cheeky jokes. Not content with simply advertising a spoof vacancy, Google also introduced its latest Gmail technology - a movement-powered control system for managing emails, enabling a ‘much more efficient human computer interaction’.

Add to this a celebration of YouTube’s 100th Anniversary, an exercise program to keep fingers nimble for using Chrome, Comic Sans search results for the search term ‘helvetica’, a cunning new advertising format called gBlimp and many more, it’s clear to see that Google was on top April Fools’ Day form.

What do you think of Google’s latest pranks – did any of them catch you out?