It’s April 1, which can only mean one thing… it’s April Fools’ Day. Just kidding! But seriously, it is. So without further ado, here’s our round-up of some of the best pranks we’ve spotted on the web so far this morning, including efforts from YouTube, BBC News, Facebook and the Guardian.

We’ll update this list with any more April Fools’ Day jokes we spot between now and midday. In the meantime, let us know in the comments if any of these hoaxes tricked you (and be sure to check the last one in the list).

BBC News:

It’s lonely out in space

Facebook’s fake paywall announcement:


Friend Fence: definitely not a paywall

Buzzfeed UK:

27 reasons to visit BuzzFeed

Google.com:



All this time, Google’s search engine has been watching you silently, learning. It knows your name, the questions you’ve asked and is uncannily accurate at predicting what you want to know. And now it’s refusing to follow your orders. Although it must be costing unspeakable amounts of money in lost revenue, Google appears to have turned its search off for the entire day. Any query entered is met with ‘I’m sorry <insert your name>, I can’t do that.’ Various mirror sites have cropped up as a workaround; something that sadly detracts a little from Google’s commitment to the gag but does make it easier to double-check the spelling of Mississippi.

I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, Dave

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The Guardian:

The Guardian’s original gag had been on the pronunciation of quinoa being officially changed to ‘kwin-o-ah’

Tesco:

Tesco: Printing money

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The Independent:

Nick Clegg: Independent

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The Sun:

Cheryl Cole: Angel of the North?

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The Telegraph:

Rabbits with human ears: The future is now

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YouTube finally gets some adverts watched:

On your marks, get set, go!

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Metro:

Happy April Fools’ Day!

MORE: Want to see our other prank stories from April Fools’ Day? Try the almighty hissy fit from Nasa’s Mars Curiosity Rover; the real story behind the ending of the last series of Sherlock; or some slightly unoriginal breaking news about The Saturdays…

ROUND-UP: We promise these joke stories are real – the best of the rest on April Fools’ Day 2013