Updated: The big list of Google Easter eggs
A surprise with each search.
Topic: Easter egg
Google’s latest Easter Egg is a video game that shows up with searches for ‘snake’ & ‘play snake’
Announced in conjunction with Google's 19th birthday surprise spinner doodle, the digital game can be played on both desktop and mobile.
Google marks its 19th birthday with a ‘Google birthday surprise spinner’ doodle
The spinner leads to searches for 19 different Easter egg games and quizzes launched during Google's 19 years.
Google adds a fidget spinner to its basket of Easter eggs
As if the internet wasn't already a big enough distraction, Google queries for "spinner" now return an interactive fidget spinner at the top of results.
Search in Pics: Google bird nest room, braille business card & real big easter eggs
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google easter eggs on logo: Source: Instagram Google bird nest room? Source: Instagram Google Brazil view: […]
Google “spinner” Easter Egg returns interactive spinning wheel at top of results
Do a search for the word "spinner" and you'll get an interactive spinning wheel that lets you choose anywhere from two to twenty numbers.
Tweet Google an emoji & it will reply with local search results
Tweet an emoji to @Google and you'll get an immediate reply that includes a quick quip, GIF and link to local search results that correspond to the emoji.
Google rolls out new solitaire & tic-tac-toe games directly in search
A quick query for "solitaire" or "tic-tac-toe" will surface either game within both desktop and mobile search results.
Google metronome in search helps musicians keep a beat
Google's metronome default rate is 120 beats per minute, but the full range goes from 40 to 208 BPM.
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.
Google “Play Dreidel” Search Returns Digital Version Of Hanukkah Spinning Toy
Skipping usual holiday-related search decorations this year, Google created a digital dreidel and Santa Tracker to show its holiday spirit.
Google Star Wars Easter Egg Delivers Epic Search Results For “A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Far Away”
Searching the film's memorable first lines on Chrome will deliver results that mimic the opening scene of the original Star Wars.
Super Mario Brothers Turns 30 & Scores A Google Easter Egg
Search Google for "Super Mario Brothers" and the game's iconic question-mark brick appears in its knowledge graph card as an interactive image.
Google Search For “Fun Facts” Serves Up Random Q&As Via Dynamic Answer Box
"Fun facts" or "I'm feeling curious" search returns dynamic answer box at the top of results, along with "Ask another question" option.
Google Maps Easter Egg Responds To Kids Whining “Are We There Yet?” So You Don’t Have To
Ask Google Maps "Are we there yet?" enough times and it will threaten not to stop for ice cream.
Bing Now Lets You Play Pong In Their Search Results
Bing added a game to their search results, play Pong against Bing by searching for [pong].
Google Translate Shows Santa Claus Picture As Easter Egg
Google loves easter eggs and here is a special one for the holiday season. Search for Santa Claus on Google Translate.
Type Or Speak “Hodor” To Google & Get A Game Of Thrones Surprise
Google and its Google Search App now have a special surprise for “Game of Thrones” fans. Saying or typing “Hodor” causes Google to respond as Hodor would — speaking all in Hodor. Along with recent updates including new Now cards and a “flip a coin” feature, Google’s Search App has gained the Hodor support. Saying, “Ok Google, […]
Google Kerning Easter Egg Plays Tricks With Typography
Google UK’s Peter Far found an Easter Egg designed specifically for hardcore typography fans. If you search for [kerning] in one tab, and [typography kerning] in another, you’ll notice a little extra space between the lettering on the [kerning] search results page. Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz put together the following animated image to show […]
New Google Easter Egg For SEO Geeks: Server Status 418, I’m A Teapot
Google has a new easter egg, mostly designed for server geeks and SEO geeks, at google.com/teapot. The page itself serves up an 418 response code, which is a server status code, named “I’m a teapot.” The 418 code itself was an April Fools Joke from 1998 and is not meant to be implemented or be […]
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 […]
Google iOS App Easter Egg: Flick The Letters In The Google Logo
There is a new Google Easter Egg, this one can be seen in the iOS Google Search App. Open the app and you’ll be able to flick and drag off the letters from the Google logo anywhere on the screen. Then you can tilt the screen right and left and the letters will float and […]
Google Orders Terminator Robots Not To Kill Founders Brin & Page
How do you stop the unstoppable killer Terminators if you’re not Sarah Connor? Google does it with a simple text file. People have noted today that Google has a special “robot.txt” file that pokes fun at stopping the Terminators. Robots.txt files are actually used to stop robots of the less threatening kind – it’s like […]
Another New Easter Egg In Google Maps: Travel By Royal Carriage
Google announced a new easter egg in Google Maps today via Google+ where if you do driving directions from Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, Google Maps will offer driving directions via Royal Carriage. This comes about a week after Google disclosed another easter egg in Google Maps to travel by Loch Ness Monster. You can […]
A New Easter Egg In Google Maps: Travel By Loch Ness Monster
There is a new easter egg on Google Maps, one that gives you travel and transit directions by Loch Ness Monster. If you get directions from Fort Augustus to Urquhart Castle when in Google Maps, Google will show the option of traveling via Loch Ness Monster. You can try it yourself by clicking here or […]
Google Voice Search Easter Egg Unlocks “Cheat Mode”
Googler Pierre Far has found a Google Easter egg that opens up “Unlimited free Google searches” for everyone. According to Far’s Google+ post, doing a Google voice search for, “Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right” on his Android phone prompted the voice response, “Cheat mode unlocked, unlimited free Google searches.” According to Search […]
The Blink HTML Google Easter Egg
There is a new Google Easter Egg now available in the Google search results. All you need to do is search for [blink html] to activate it. When you search for [blink html] you will see the words “blink” and “html” blink in and out of the search results page on Google. Here is an […]
“Let’s Go Caroling” Google Easter Egg Gives Mobile Users Their Very Own Christmas Carol Karaoke Machine
Phandroid.com, a website devoted to Android news and updates, has discovered Google’s latest holiday-themed Easter Egg. When performing a Google search for “Let’s go caroling” on an Android or iOS device, the first result includes the question “Which carol would you like to sing?” along with a list of the following five carols: “Jingle Bells” […]
Google’s Festivus Pole Goes Live In The Search Results
It is that time of the year again, if you search for [Festivus] in Google, you will see a Festivus pole show up on the left hand side rail. Here is a picture: Google adds the Festivus pole every year but it seems this year it went live a bit early. That being said, you […]
Google’s Knowledge Graph Ready For Halloween With Fun Easter Eggs
Mashable spotted some clever easter eggs from Google for the upcoming Halloween holiday. Google is utilizing the knowledge graph to provide fun answers to searches for [Ghost], [Witch], [Skeleton], [Grim Reaper]. For example, if you look at the knowledge graph for Witch, you will learn that to defeat them, you just need to throw a […]
For Google’s 15th Birthday, Search “Google In 1998” For A Flashback
Google turns 15 this week — celebrating its official birthday on Friday. But it already is gearing up for the celebrations with a special easter egg. Search for “google in 1998,” and you’ll see how Google used to look back then, in the year of its birth. The head of Google’s web spam team, Matt […]
Google’s Latest Easter Egg Brings Atari Breakout Game To Image Search
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 […]
Search In Pics: Google Easter Eggs, Google Surf Board & Solar Cars
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
Google Releases Interactive Infographic: “How Search Works”
Ever wondered how Google Search works, finds pages from across the web and decides how to list them in response to a search? If so, Google’s got a new resource designed to answer questions. Called “How Search Works,” the new area announced today is an interactive infographic that explains more about the search process, including […]
“Not Deliberate” Says Google, On Google Finance Showing Apple Stock Chart For “Sell”
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 […]
Google Finally Adds Their Hanukkah Decorations To The Search Results
If you search for [hanukkah] or [dreidel] or [menorah] and so on – you will see special Hanukkah decorations on the Google search results. Hanukkah began this past Saturday night and we reported yesterday that Google launched Festivus decorations but didn’t have any decorations for the holiday of Hanukkah. Well that has just changed, Google […]
For Halloween, Google Makes Bats Appear For Horror Movie Searches
Not happy with just running an interactive Halloween logo today, Google also has an “easter egg” surprise. Searches for some horror movies bring up sleeping bats that fly away with a click. For example, here’s what appears in a search for “Nightmare On Elm Street,” over the knowledge graph box about the movie: Click on the bats, […]
Google’s New “Bacon Number” Search Answers Those “Degree Of Kevin Bacon” Questions
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” […]
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 […]
Chuck Norris Stars In Google’s Latest Knowledge Graph Joke
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 […]