Google's Avengers Easter Egg releases the destructive power of Thanos on the Web

Of course, it's sad and amazing to see half of the galaxy's population dissolve in the dust, but imagine if half of your search results go away just as quickly.

With Avengers: Endgame now in the movie theaters, that's the downright frightening proposition that Google began Thursday to offer users of its search engine that made a simple query for Thanos The fictional supervillain who destroyed half of the universe in 2018 Avengers: Infinity War . (The Easter egg was launched Wednesday afternoon but, as it had been by Thanos, it quickly disappeared until Thursday.)

Thanos search triggers an Easter egg that features Thanos' Infinity Gemstone Glove in the upper right corner of Google's search results. But be warned that the power that the image exerts is considerable. In front of you, half of the search results will be eliminated randomly.

Google even gives you an updated number of search results to show you the magnitude of your actions, by displaying its usual number of search results in the upper left corner. They fall from about 90 million results to only 45 million.

Thanos, of course, used the glove to reduce the population of the galaxy because he found it too cluttered. Maybe Google secretly thinks the same thing about web search results.

But take courage. Although these search results Thanos have disappeared, you can restore them by clicking once again on the glove of crazy titan.

This is not the first time Google lays an Easter egg in its search results. For less destructive but certainly more disorienting results, search Google for "askew", http://www.cnet.com/ "anagram" or "roll a barrel". (Tip: keep the Dramamine handy for the last one.)

Google's Easter Egg arrives at the cinema fans waiting for . Avengers: Endgame . The film – its three hours – was opened (or opened) April 24 in Australia, April 25 in the United Kingdom and April 26 in the United States.