Updated: The big list of Google Easter eggs
A surprise with each search.
Topic: Easter egg
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.
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.
A New Google Easter Egg; This One For Bletchley Park
Check out this fun and new Google Easter Egg for a search on Bletchley Park, the place they decoded the German communication during the second World War.
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 […]
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 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 21, 2014
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Tell Search Engines What “Entities” Are On Your Web Pages Search engines have increasingly been incorporating elements of semantic search to improve some aspect of the search experience — […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 29, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: 5 Simple Ways To Debug Your Google Analytics Installation As you might guess, we QA a lot of Google Analytics installs. It is often a maddening task that makes you want […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 12, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Search Engines & 9/11: Remembrances Today; Some Thoughts Of Then The major search engines are all memorializing the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on their home pages today. Below, a recap, some […]
Bing “Easter Eggs” That Imply Google Is “Evil” And A “Whiner”
Today on Google Plus, Andy Arnt — a software engineer at Google — posted about two Bing “Easter Eggs” that take shots at Google, searches that take digs at Google in the answers that show at the top of Bing’s results. The two search queries in question are more evil than satan himself and hiybbprqag. For each search, there’s […]
Foursquare’s Crowley Can Feel Foursquare Fatigue, Has Plans To Fix It
Feeling Foursquare fatigue and perhaps wondering what’s the point of checking in at times? Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley sometimes feels it too — but he’s got plans to keep you interested. More on that as well as turning Foursquare into a “product building machine,” from my interview with him last week. Why Check In? I’ve […]
Search In Pictures: Google ViewMaster, Twitter & Yahoo Cake Spelling
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.