Google.com is directly giving health advice. Any joke on that page will be related to that advice.
Would it be appropriate to redirect those links to Rick Astley videos on April 1? Even the other links? Can you see how that would undermine Google’s credibility?
> Can you see how that would undermine Google’s credibility?
Do you honestly think I might be okay with the specific action of redirecting the coronavirus links, and that it's a fair representation of my point? Or are you falsely equating that with 'jokes on the same page' and 'jokes on other pages' as a deliberate strawman?
Your previous comment said the joke would have nothing to do with coronavirus. The point I am trying to make is that everything Google does right now is related to the coronavirus. As evidence to support that position I provide the front page and news.google.com.
I have made no disingenuous arguments here and I would appreciate you not accusing me of doing so.
Please. I doubt google is putting anything approaching 1% of their resources into it. It takes so little effort to add an advice page and a news category. A bit of software to help with dealing with the disease is a nice gesture but they're not a coronavirus company.
> I have made no disingenuous arguments here and I would appreciate you not accusing me of doing so.
You asked me a pretty insulting question. And don't ignore the 'or' in that sentence. If you think your question was fair, then I was not accusing you.
But we can drop that if you want. I still think you're extremely wrong to equate any link on any page as so close to the coronavirus links that it would discredit them. Google already has tons of nonsense links, after all.