Add this to the big list of Google easter eggs: do an image search for "atari breakout," and you'll be able to play the classic video game online, right in your search results. In fact, the image search results become the bricks that you have to eliminate as you play the game. Google is calling the game "Image Breakout." You can use your mouse or the arrow keys on your keyboard to control your paddle, and when you've used up all five chances, you can share your score on Google+. I'm not sure who reported/discovered this first (if it matters); TechCrunch, which may have been first [...]

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Google is well-known for its lighter side, including things like whimsical logos, april fools' gags and more. In the spirit of the Easter holiday, here's a big list of "easter eggs" that Google engineers have hidden for enterprising searchers who take the time to hunt them down. Easter eggs? "A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, webpage, video game, movie, book, or crossword," according to Wikipedia. A classic Google example: An animated, rotating graph of a 3D easter egg (click the link to see the animation). [...]

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Do a search on Google Finance for the word "sell," and Google returns the stock chart for Apple. Why? Some thought Google had rigged this as an "Easter Egg" or joke. However, Google says this isn't so. In the first edition of this story, I could see no good reason why this was happening, something spotted by PFhub and which has since been noted by The Next Web and also a discussion on Reddit. I'd seen a few comments that this was due to the Reuters-description that Google Finance shows for Apple having the word "sell" in it several times. Google tells us that is indeed the case, sen [...]

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Six Degrees Of Bacon is a popular game where people try to guess how actors are connected to Kevin Bacon through movies they've been in. Now Google is making it easy with a new "bacon number" search. Measuring Bacon Numbers To get the "bacon number" of any actor, simply start your search with "bacon number" followed by the actors name. For example, "bacon number scarlett johansson" gives you this: The result shows that Johansson has a "bacon number" of two, which means you can get to a movie she's been in with an actor connected with Kevin Bacon in only two jumps. The result also expla [...]

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Google's famous "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on its home page has been changed to add new options such as "I'm Feeling Playful" or "I'm Feeling Trendy." The long-standing "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, when selected (if Google Instant is off), will automatically take someone to the first page that appears in Google's results for a particular search, hence the "feeling lucky" aspect. Now the button, for some users, is sporting these new options: I'm Feeling Doodly: random doodle I'm Feeling Playful: random interactive doodle I'm Feeling Artistic: random Google Art Project I'm Fee [...]

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Google's latest easter egg in the search results leads you to the Game of Life. Search for [conway's game of life] and the search results page will start to be over run by cellular automaton. It was created by British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970 as a zero-player game. Yes, once the game is started, it plays out by itself. What do you do? Just watch it evolve. Here is a video of the game in action on Google: I spotted this on John Mueller's Google+ page. Other Google Easter Eggs Chuck Norris Stars In Google’s Latest Knowledge Graph Joke Google’s Latest [...]

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The legend of Chuck Norris lives on in Google's latest Knowledge Graph easter egg. Do a name search for the veteran, bad-a** actor and Google's Knowledge Graph box will include a "fact" such as "Chuck Norris counted to infinity -- twice." The joke changes with each search refresh. I'm not even going to try to figure out how many different "facts" there are, but I did see these: The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain. Chuck Norris doesn't cheat death. He wins fair and square. Chuck Norris doesn't sleep. He waits. Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door. This shouldn't [...]

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Oh, Google, you slay me. And it might slay you, too. Go do a search for "lionel richie" (or just click here) and -- if you've been alive long enough -- you'll get a kick out of the joke that shows up in the Knowledge Graph box. That, for you youngins, is a reference to the lyrics of Richie's "Hello," one of the sappiest songs ever, and one of Richie's biggest hits, too. The video just oozes cheese, in ways that few 1980s songs could ever hope to match. We're pretty certain that Google must have more jokes built-in to its Knowledge Graph (just like Apple's Siri has numerous funny [...]

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Google's newest Easter egg, a search for "zerg rush," forces to to fight an onslaught of invaders to save your search results.  This Easter egg is themed after the popular strategy game StarCraft, and may just be the geekiest Easter egg to date. In Starcraft a variety of races exist, one of which are "Zergs."  These insect-like creatures don't overpower, rather that overtake others by sheer numbers.  The zerg attack is also know as "zerging" or the "zerg rush" and is popular gamer jargon for both Starcraft and other video games. The following video depicts an actual Zerg Rush video [...]

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Searching for the [Qingming Festival] on Google will return a little bit of an easter egg within those search results. Here are pictures: Clicking on the page initiates special animations, including a fish jumping out of the water and back in causing a splash in the water and the man's hand petting the animal. This feature is currently live today and can be replicated on Google.com. Google India announced this on their Google+ page: Have friends, family, colleagues in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan? Wish them a Happy Qingming Festival today! Not sure what this holiday is? Try searc [...]

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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]: 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: Hat tip to Google Operating System and GTricks.com. Related Stories: VIDEO: Google’s "Do A Barrel Roll" Search Is Latest Easter Egg Google’s Let It Snow Easter Egg Google’s New [...]

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Google has a new easter egg for the winter holiday season - search for [let it snow] and Google will turn the search results page into a powdery snow covered set of search results. The search results will become so hard to see that you will instinctively want to wipe the screen clean with your hand. Instead, use the mouse and it will help you wipe off the snow. Don't have any patience for that? No worries, click the "Defrost" button at the top and the snow will melt away. Finally, you can draw shapes in the snow and share them on Google+ with your friends. Here is a video of it in act [...]

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If you have vertigo, be careful with this one: Google's latest easter egg search result comes in the form of a nifty, spin-tastic search results page for the query do a barrel roll. When you do that search, Google listens and make the search results page do a barrel roll. Here's a video that we've posted on YouTube: If you're wondering "why?," well … we were, too. Here's the official word from a Google spokesperson: Today's fun query, 'do a barrel roll', was created by a Google software engineer with the primary goal of entertaining users -- while showcasing the power of CSS3, a p [...]

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