Googleplex日历显然已转到4月

It’s been a strange week at Google. Maybe the company is just trying to cheer themselves up after a brutal month on Wall Street that has seen their stock lose more than 20% of its value and been cut by a handful of analysts, but Google has released a pair of features on two of their flagship products this week that make me wonder if their calendar might just be accidentally turned to April.

Google is known for funny April Fools day jokes every spring, but eagle eyed readers will notice that it is indeed October and not April. So what did Google release this week that has me scratching my head?

Google以每年春天有趣的愚人节笑话而闻名，但鹰眼的读者会注意到，确实是十月而不是四月。 那么，本周Google发布了哪些内容让我挠头？

邮件护目镜 (Mail Goggles)

Google’s SaaS email program, GMail, released a new feature called “Mail Goggles,” with the aim of stemming the tide of late night, drunk emailing. “When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email,” wrote GMail engineer Jon Parlow.

谷歌的SaaS电子邮件程序GMail 发布了一项名为“邮件护目镜” 的新功能 ，目的是阻止深夜醉酒的电子邮件浪潮。 “当您启用Mail Goggles时，它将检查您是否确实确定要在周五深夜发送电子邮件，” GMail工程师Jon Parlow写道。

Mail Goggles works by asking you to solve a handful of fairly simple math problems before sending off your email (i.e., 68-39) in a short period of time. “By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you’re most likely to need it,” says Parlow. Because the weekend is when you’re likely to have been out partying.

Mail Goggles的工作原理是，要求您在短时间内发送电子邮件(即68-39)之前解决一些相当简单的数学问题。 “默认情况下，“邮件护目镜”仅在周末深夜才启用，因为那是您最有需要的时间，” Parlow说。 因为周末是您外出聚会的时间。

We know that some of GMail’s biggest corporate clients are universities, but is drunk email protection really the best way to attract the enterprise market that Google wants so badly to wrestle away from Microsoft?

我们知道，GMail的一些最大的企业客户是大学，但是醉酒的电子邮件保护真的是吸引企业市场的最佳方法，而Google迫切希望从微软手中夺走这些市场吗？

XKCD风格的YouTube音频评论预览 (XKCD-inspired YouTube Audio Comment Previews)

Web cartoonist Randall Munroe, who pens the often hilarious web comic XKCD, may not know his own power. Apparently, he has some fans at Google — or at least, they respect his opinion enough that XKCD strips are now influencing the development of Google properties. A couple of weeks ago, Munroe put up a comic that suggested that if YouTube had audio previews of comments, the level of discourse would go up on the site.

网络漫画家兰德尔·芒罗(Randall Munroe)可能经常热闹网络漫画XKCD ，他可能不知道自己的力量。 显然，他在Google上有一些粉丝-或至少，他们足够尊重他的意见，以至于XKCD条现在正在影响Google物业的发展。 几周前，芒罗(Munroe)贴出一幅漫画 ，暗示如果YouTube上有评论的音频预览，那么话语水平就会在网站上上升。

Someone at Google was listening, because this week they actually added audio preview to YouTube. It’s not quite the dramatic reading Munroe was hoping for, but it’s a step in the right direction. Right? Certainly, now comments on on YouTube will rise to the level of the Economist debate series.

Google有人在听，因为这周他们实际上向YouTube添加了音频预览。 Munroe希望阅读的内容不尽如人意，但这是朝正确方向迈出的一步。 对？ 当然，现在在YouTube上发表的评论将达到《 经济学人》辩论系列的水平。

Okay, probably not.

好吧，可能不会。

翻译自: https://www.sitepoint.com/googleplex-calendar-apparently-turned-to-april/