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Google Search Easter Eggs
The good folks at Google have a great sense of humor. Ever since the launch of GMail on the 1st of April, and the subsequent April Fool jokes, we are always guessing what hidden joke lurks in each of the Google products. Here are some of them that I have found, you can check them out too!
I am also including some of the outputs, which you can try by yourself as well!
Do a Barrel Roll
Search this term in Google search, and watch the fun as the search queries take a tumble, and literally does a barrel roll!
Askew
Search this term in Google search, and see the screen go askew!!
Ascii Art
Search for this, and the Google logo shows you what Ascii Art is all about!
Recursion
Have you noticed that when search on Google, if you do typographical mistakes, Google corrects you by asking you “Did you mean <corrected spelling>”. Try searching recursion on Google!
There are more such easter eggs in Google, but they are time bound (for example searching football during the Soccer World Cup would give you an interested Pagination navigation on Google).
As a bonus, try this out in your Google Reader – up up down down left right left right b a b a (and beware of the ninja!).
Adobe and Apple: The feeling is mutual
I was on Google Suggest, and it’s wonderful what little insights you can get on how and what are people searching for – go figure!
Google Fonts!
Came across Google Webfonts, decided to try it out on this blog.
Instructions are pretty simple, as long as you are using CSS on your site. Otherwise you will be forced to CSSify your site first before implementing Google’s webfonts.
Include the Google Font definition in your head section, and simply update the “font-family” attribute in your body CSS definition to the desired font family.
Pretty simple and elegant. Trust Google to come up with this.
What are Indians yearning to learn?
Every year Google releases their Zeitgeist (“spirit of the times”). I was going through their 2009 release when I came across this list for India.
The top 10 How-To’s that were searched in India are listed below
How to
- how to kiss
- how to hack
- how to meditate
- how to study
- how to swim
- how to draw
- how to flirt
- how to chat
- how to concentrate
- how to download
Does that tell you something about the average Indian web-user?
A romantic student who fantasizes about being a cyber superhero but in reality is failing in studies.
