Amusing touches on Google searches

Angilion · 29 Feb 2012 at 01:46

Maybe these have been around for ages and I'm going to look like someone's grandad discovering something that was new 5 years ago, but I saw these somewhere else and it made me laugh.

Google is having a bit of a laugh with some search terms. Try a search for 'binary', 'hexadecimal', 'recursion' or 'anagram'. Maybe there are others.

Reaper 392 · 29 Feb 2012 at 01:53

try searching for: any of these:
- 'tilt'
- 'answer to life, the universe and everything'
- 'do a barrel roll'
- 'ascii art'

*edit*
i'll add more to this post so you dont just get a million replies from me

Evoss · 29 Feb 2012 at 02:02

Try:

"do a barrel roll"
"let it snow"
"askew"

richthomuk · 29 Feb 2012 at 02:03

yeah "askew" is the same as tilt too.

V4NT0M · 29 Feb 2012 at 02:16

I get search results...

Judgeneo · 29 Feb 2012 at 02:53

Recursion

Did you mean Recursion?

banja · 29 Feb 2012 at 02:54

I just get search results too. Is it april fools already?

Borsch · 29 Feb 2012 at 03:23

Search for Chuck Norris using "i feel lucky"

(http://www.nochucknorris.com/)

Angilion · 29 Feb 2012 at 03:53

banja said:
I just get search results too. Is it april fools already?

The amusing touches I referred to appear at the top, as standard messages above the search results. So, for example, if you search for 'binary', the number of results is shown in binary instead of decimal: "About 0b1110111110010000001000000 results". Some use the standard suggested search terms for when you might have made a spelling mistake or typo. Searching for 'recursion' particularly amused me, as the suggestion is "Did you mean: recursion".

Mr. Peri Peri · 29 Feb 2012 at 12:20

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

DiCe! · 29 Feb 2012 at 12:25

Mr. Peri Peri said:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Love that

Robertnpmk · 29 Feb 2012 at 13:27

I presume you guys have seen google mavity:

http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/

only works on chrome.

Building Candy · 29 Feb 2012 at 14:57

Robertnpmk said:
only works on chrome.

......and firefox

rossk26 · 29 Feb 2012 at 15:35

Robertnpmk said:
I presume you guys have seen google mavity:

http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/

only works on chrome.

That's not google though. That's a third part website, plenty like that.

I prefer the google tricks myself.

Gregster · 29 Feb 2012 at 16:58

I loved let it snow but it no longer works

Snograt · 29 Feb 2012 at 17:11

Building Candy said:
......and firefox

...and Safari (on the iPad).

Killerkebab · 29 Feb 2012 at 17:56

After the xkcd comic on bad Kerning (a word I'd never heard before), I decided to Google it to find out what kerning is.

Turns out Google is nice enough to explain what kerning is without you having to click on any links

fidget · 29 Feb 2012 at 18:03

Snograt said:
...and Safari (on the iPad).

And IE9....

mistercrabb · 29 Feb 2012 at 18:03

Mr. Peri Peri said:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

And those who understand trinary of course.

Edit: Only just realised that you can still search with the google mavity thing, the results fall down from the top of the page and stack up on the pile

One · 29 Feb 2012 at 18:13

mistercrabb said:
And those who understand trinary of course.

Edit: Only just realised that you can still search with the google mavity thing, the results fall down from the top of the page and stack up on the pile

10 would be 3 in trinary which breaks the joke