Fun Google Search Easter Eggs Work With Query Refinements

Google is a big fan of doing easter eggs, and we’ve covered many of them in the past including ones that mess around with the display of the search results listing page. They include the do a barrel roll and blink HTML examples. But did you know they work with query refinements, as well? Because of […]

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Google is a big fan of doing easter eggs, and we’ve covered many of them in the past including ones that mess around with the display of the search results listing page. They include the do a barrel roll and blink HTML examples.

But did you know they work with query refinements, as well? Because of that, you can really mess around with your friends using Google.

For example, one of your friends tells you “my head is spinning.” Why not send them to a search result page that triggers the [do a barrel roll] query but displays results for the query [my head is spinning]. Here is an animated GIF of what they would see:

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Or what if they complain about eye problems? Send them to a search result for the blink html easter egg but for the search query [eye problems]. Here is an animated GIF of what they would see:

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I am sure you all can come up with clever ideas.

Hat tip to +EnricoAltavilla.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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