Google Provides An Interactive Bubble Level In Their Search Results
Google has a new feature where you can search for bubble level and use the bubble level directly on Google's mobile search results page.
Barry Schwartz on December 16, 2015 at 3:42 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
If you go to Google on your mobile device and search for [bubble level], Google will provide you an interactive leveler. It clearly is using the mobile devices’ instruments to determine if the phone is level, which lets them provide this bubble level tool directly in the search results.
I put together an animated GIF of it in action:
This was spotted by a reddit user just the other day.
I would classify this as more of an interactive calculator tool versus an easter egg, both of which Google has plenty of.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.