Google’s Easter eggs
Google’s “Let it snow” Easter egg has been getting a lot of attention over the past couple of days but this is just one of many little toys created by the boffins at the Googleplex. Here is a selection of incredibly nerdy Easter eggs from the search giant.
Search in Klingon, Pirate and more
Klingon might not be recognised as an official language by the UN but that doesn’t stop you using it as a search engine. Other languages on offer are Pirate, Pig Latin and strangest of all, Elmer Fudd!
Google calculator tricks
The Google calculator can be useful to convert units of measurement or doing simple maths equations. Slightly less useful are the tricks it’ll do for you. It can tell you the number of horns on a unicorn and even give a nod to Douglas Adams if you ask it the answer to life, the universe and everything.
Meet the ninja
This is a geeky throwback to the days of Konami games on gthe Nintendo NES. In Google Reader enter the Konami Code up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A to see the ninja pop up in your sidebar.
Recursion, recursion, recursion…
The “Did you mean:” function helps us with misspellings but some word loving Googler wanted to show off his hilarious sense of humour by adding a “Did you mean: Recursion” link when searching for recursion. The fun must never stop at the Googleplex…
Ascii art
I love a bit of ASCII art and someone at Google clearly does too. Searching for Ascii art will give you a lo-tech version of the Google logo.
Go kayaking
Carrying out a search for directions on Google Maps from Tokyo to San Francisco will encourage you to jump in your kayak and paddle for a little over 6,000 km.
Send Google in to a spin
There are quite a few things you can do to make your search results do odd things. Asking Google to do a barrel roll was big news on social networks a couple of months ago but you can also make it tilt, go askew or even enforce gravity.
MentalPlex
Google used MentalPlex as an April Fools joke back in 2000. It explains a new way of searching using mind power alone. The geeks even gave it a FAQ page.
Nag a ram
You’ll see another word joke from Mountain View if you carry out a search for anagram.
The StreetView geeks
The boffins who created StreetView lined up to be photographed by the Google car as it passed. One of them even dressed up as the StreetView Pegman. See it for yourself here.
The many faces of Pegman
The Pegman is the little dragable guy who shows up in the bottom right hand corner of Google Maps. In certain places he takes on some interesting personas including a lego man in LegoLand and a penguin in a part of the South Pole.
Google Earth oddities
There’s a multitude of strange things to see on Google Earth such as the FireFox logo crop circle but this one of KFC’s Colonel Sanders is just finger lickin’ weird.
Google Doodles
These aren’t really Easter eggs but the Google Doodle has become so popular that they now have their own searchable archive.
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