An Easter Egg in Google Search
Posted: November 4, 2011 Filed under: Techno irrelevency ., Web 2.0 | Tags: easter, easter egg, egg, google, new, web, webapps Leave a commentAn easter egg has been found in Google search . It was about time that google did something interesting with google search , which even after the recent redesign wasn’t very interesting, But still the minimal look is what we all love about google search .
What is an easter egg anyway , well Wikipedia defines it as
A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page, video game, movie, book or crossword.
What it means is that easter egg is just a simple trivial feature that in placed by the creators of the software product to lighten things up .
So now back to google’s easter egg, Imagine Google doing a Barrel roll well you can literally ask google to do it by typing “Do a barrel roll” in the search box , the same effect can also be triggered by typing “z or r twice” .
Then try imagining google having a slight tilt , well neither could I , but you can still see it by searching for “tilt“ or “askew” .
These effects seem to be working in the recent versions of all major browsers .
I have made a video of all the effects take a look