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Google is famous, among others, for its lighter side.
Cheeky doodles and the word games of April are just some examples of the company's creations.
There are many "Easter eggs" that Google's funniest engineers have hidden from engaged hunters.
We have listed the best we could find below to score 20th anniversary of Google – but let us know in the comments section if you meet them yourself.
Search for "the answer to the life of the universe and everything"
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Google's response to this query comes unsurprisingly from Douglas Adams' Guide to Hitchhiker Galaxy.
In this document, he wrote "The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42."
People have been trying for years to decipher the "hidden" meaning behind number 42, but Adams himself, several years after the book was published, said something very different.
"The answer to this question is very simple. It was a joke. It must have been a number, a small ordinary number, and I chose that one. The binary representations, base 13, Tibetan monks are completely absurd. I sat on my desk, stared into the garden and thought 42 would do the trick. I typed it End of the story. "
Disappointing for some, but not for Google.
Search for "roll barrel"
According to the Oxford Dictionary, a barrel is "an acrobatic maneuver in which an aircraft follows a single spiral turn while rolling once around its longitudinal axis".
People use this phrase today to mean "getting back together", but Google has retained the aeronautical meaning.
Type this search to see "rotate" the results page in a 360-degree loop.
You can also Google for a little fun:
Search Tilt or Askew
Recursion search
Search for "Conway's Life Game"
The Game of Life is a program designed by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.
The "game" is a game without a player, which means that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no other input.
Based on the game, this Google search will allow you to create an initial environment and then watch it evolve.
Search for "anagram"
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Search for the word on Google and you will be presented with an alternative search of nag-a-ram.
The sentence does not mean anything at all. In fact, it could be a word game designed for the next Easter Egg search of this list.
Search for "define anagram"
And Google will introduce another alternative to "Do you want to say", this time by saying nerd fame again.
Search "bacon number [actor name]"
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According to a theory called "six degrees of separation", each person can be linked in six steps or less, thanks to people they know.
A game called "Kevin Bacon's Six Degrees" aims to connect each actor to Kevin Bacon in up to six stages.
Google allows you to discover the degree of separation of an actor from Kevin Bacon simply by searching for "bacon number" followed by the name of the actor.
Search " Break Atari " and click on "Images"
Breakout is an arcade game developed and published by Atari in the 70s for the youngest.
By typing "Atari Breakout" on Google and selecting Images, you will be prompted to use a slightly buggy version of the Super Breakout game, consisting of all the images in the search.
Very funny indeed.
Search "zerg rush"
In game terms, a "Zerg Rush" occurs when a player is invaded by a large number of weak opponents. It comes from "Starcraft", a real-time strategy game in 1998 in which a player could choose to play as "Zerg", an extraterrestrial race.
Search for Zerg Rush and you will trigger a simplified example of a Zerg rush using a swarm of "O", ending in the traditional "GG" (meaning "good game").
Search for "Super Mario Bros"
This is a special NES-y surprise for all children of the 90's.
Look in the side information card for a flashing polling point area. click on it and you will get coins. Enjoy.
Search "Return a coin" and "roll a dice"
Quite explicit but useful too. Complete with animation, these Easter eggs will help you make an urgent decision or play without coins or dice.
Street View Wayback Machine
Google has added a feature to its Street View. Just click on the clock button at the top left of the screen when you are already in street level view and you will be transported to the past.
Google gives you historical data for this view going back up to. 2007
There are also a few in Google Calculator, and that counts for us, so here are a few to try.
Search for "binary"
The number of results found is displayed as a binary number rather than the normal decimal number. You can also try "hexadecimal" and "octal" to see similar results.
Search "once in a blue moon"
Numbers clichés also work … Look for "once in a blue moon" and you will get "1,1699016 × 10-8 hertz" as the answer.
If you wonder why? Convert the result to seconds to years and you will get about 2.7 years, the approximate time between each "blue moon".
The sentence, of course, refers to a month when there are two full moons, due to the variation of the lunar cycle. Our calendar is about one blue moon every three years.
"Bakers dozen", "The most solitary number" and "the number of horns on a unicorn" also work.
If you want to go further, Google also converts the equations … try this one:
sqrt (cos (x)) * cos (300x) + sqrt (abs (x)) – 0.7) * (4-x * x) ^ 0.01, sqrt (6-x ^ 2), -sqrt (6-x) 2) -4.5 to 4.5
Google Maps
There is also a little fun to have with Google Maps.
In the older version of Google Maps, you could type "The Shire to Modor" and you would get: "Warning, we do not just enter Mordor, clearly a Hobbit fan."
It seems to have disappeared in the new version.
There are some other examples that worked in the old maps, such as when you searched for "China in Japan", you could choose to walk and say "Jet ski".
Other sites also participated in the action …
Google Gravity turns your world (good, screen) backwards.
Google Space
Google Sphere
Where is Chuck Norris?
Google Epic
Google Underwater
Google makes great products and features, but we're always interested in seeing what engineers are trying to do.
This is not a final list though. We are sure that Google creators are adding new ones all the time. If you find any, please let us know in the comments section below.
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