Google’s Easter Eggs For Binary, Octal & Hexadecimal

Log out of Google and search for [binary], [octal] and [hexadecimal] and you will see a little geeky easter egg. The easter egg shows the value of the results in that number systems. For example, here is a picture of searching for [binary]: When you convert that value, it returns 29,200,000 results. So there are […]

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Log out of Google and search for [binary], [octal] and [hexadecimal] and you will see a little geeky easter egg. The easter egg shows the value of the results in that number systems.

For example, here is a picture of searching for [binary]:

Binary

When you convert that value, it returns 29,200,000 results. So there are 29,200,000 results for binary in Google’s index.

Here are the others:

Octal

Hexadecimal

Hat tip to Google Operating System and GTricks.com.

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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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