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The Best Google Easter Eggs
Dot Commander Google Easter eggs are the funny, quirky and sometimes just plain weird hidden features built into Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps and other Google products. Like their fondness for interactive doodles on special occasions and April's Fool's pranks, Google continues to show their sense of humor with these fun Easter eggs.
For many of the Google Search Easter eggs, the search engine acts more like a command prompt and sometimes hilariously takes things a bit too literally. Search for an anagram? It will give you one with "nag a ram." Want to do a barrel roll? It will send your search results on a 360-degree ride around your screen. Want to learn about the Qingming Festival? Google will give you search results about the annual festival along with beautiful artwork to go with it.
Other Google Easter eggs come when using Google Maps, either for directions or with the Google Street View feature. Searching for directions from one land of mass to another often results in interesting steps to get across oceans and other bodies of water such as swimming or using a jet ski. Even fictional places are included, such as an Easter egg that tells you to use caution when walking from The Lord of the Rings locations of The Shire to Mordor as one does not simply walk into Mordor.
The fun doesn't stop there though as when you move into Google Earth the world is free to explore and there are plenty of other Easter eggs there too. Recreating the bridge jump scene from The Blues Brothers can be done by visiting the Tacony–Palmyra Bridge while the late wildlife expert Steve Irwin can be seen in action by visiting the Sydney Opera House.
Each of these Google Easter eggs and the many more than exist in the tubes all are subtle little touches that remind us that the folks at Google may operate the most powerful search engine and one of the most powerful companies on the planet but they're still human. If you want to see them, there's even an Easter egg for that! Visit the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Google Maps, click on Street View and meet them for yourself. Happy Googling humans!
For many of the Google Search Easter eggs, the search engine acts more like a command prompt and sometimes hilariously takes things a bit too literally. Search for an anagram? It will give you one with "nag a ram." Want to do a barrel roll? It will send your search results on a 360-degree ride around your screen. Want to learn about the Qingming Festival? Google will give you search results about the annual festival along with beautiful artwork to go with it.
Other Google Easter eggs come when using Google Maps, either for directions or with the Google Street View feature. Searching for directions from one land of mass to another often results in interesting steps to get across oceans and other bodies of water such as swimming or using a jet ski. Even fictional places are included, such as an Easter egg that tells you to use caution when walking from The Lord of the Rings locations of The Shire to Mordor as one does not simply walk into Mordor.
The fun doesn't stop there though as when you move into Google Earth the world is free to explore and there are plenty of other Easter eggs there too. Recreating the bridge jump scene from The Blues Brothers can be done by visiting the Tacony–Palmyra Bridge while the late wildlife expert Steve Irwin can be seen in action by visiting the Sydney Opera House.
Each of these Google Easter eggs and the many more than exist in the tubes all are subtle little touches that remind us that the folks at Google may operate the most powerful search engine and one of the most powerful companies on the planet but they're still human. If you want to see them, there's even an Easter egg for that! Visit the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Google Maps, click on Street View and meet them for yourself. Happy Googling humans!
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Google Calculator Easter Eggs
Google Search isn't just for finding webpages, it can also serve as a full calculator including performing conversions between units like cups, ounces, seconds, hours, Beard-seconds, Smoots and donkeypower.
Similarly, the calculator can answer many mysteries of life such as the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything (42), the loneliest number (one) and the number of horns on a unicorn (also one). - 2Up 7Down 2
Do A Barrel Roll
Paying tribute to the beloved Nintendo game Star Fox 64, searching for "do a barrel roll" (or "Z or R twice") in Google will take the search results for a ride, a full 360-degree barrel roll on your screen. - 3Up 9Down 4
Zerg Rush
Showing some love for the old Blizzard game Starcraft, searching for Zerg Rush in Google will bring up the game's little Os which must be "shot" by clicking with the crosshairs before they destroy the search results. - 4Up 4Down 1
Tilt or Askew
Searching for the single words of tilt or askew performs the action just as if your search string was a command. The actual page tilts ever so slightly and continues to askew with each following click within the Google results. - 5Up 4Down 2
Google Maps Swimming
Years ago when Google was first getting its Google Maps directions going, it suggested a very interesting way to get from point A to point B, swimming. For instance, once upon a time you could search for directions from London, England, to New York City and Google Maps would suggest you swim the whole 2,500 miles of the Atlantic Ocean. Now, swimming has been replaced by kayaking, unless you're going from China to Japan, then Google will advise that you "jet ski across the Pacific Ocean." -
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