New Google Easter Egg: Conway’s Game of Life

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 […]

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Conway S Game Of Life 1342097798Google’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.

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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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