Google’s latest hit search term, ‘Do a Barrel Roll’ has gone viral, with millions of people searching the term, but what else is out there? Here are our ten favourite Google Easter eggs, jokes and hoaxes. Do a barrel roll typed into Google search results in exactly that, Google rolls and eventually collapses. All text and buttons are drag and drop-able and surprisingly the search bar still works!IBTimes
Google’s latest hit search term, ‘Do a Barrel Roll’ has gone viral, with millions of people searching the term, but what else is out there? Here are our ten favourite Google Easter eggs, jokes and hoaxes. Do a barrel roll typed into Google search results in exactly that, Google rolls and eventually collapses. All text and buttons are drag and drop-able and surprisingly the search bar still works!IBTimesGoogle ran this ad all over the net as an April fool’s joke and it’s still available on YouTube today. The internet search giants claimed to be able to translate your pet’s callings. All of this in a handy Android app that allows you to be a little more ‘pet friendly’. Google apparently worked closesly with the world’s top language synthesis teams and “leaders in the field of animal cognitive linguistics, including senior fellows at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.”GoogleThis is just a fun little thing that Google have put in to show they acknowledge Ascii art. This kind of art – now performed by computers – was the process of making pictures using the characters available on the keyboard. Google have just done their logo in the style when you type ascii art into the homepage.GoogleGoogle TV promised free streaming of live primetime TV. It told Mark Erickson to make a video tutorial how to get to the service which looked good in the video. Unfortunately, Google tricked us again with a poor “get your hopes up then smash them to pieces” tactic. Seriously, all of Mark Erickson and co.’s video tutorials are bogus and Erickson himself has never starred in a genuine tutorial.GoogleGoogle pays homage to the mighty Klingon race and to Star Trek as a whole with this Klingon search engine. Interestingly, although Google consider it an international engine, the UN refuses to recognise the Klingon language as a genuine one. There are other language search engines with Google Pirate and Google Hacker.GoogleThe richest company in the world just got a little bit more powerful: by becoming psychic. Yes, that’s right; Google can now read your mind and search exactly what you want for you. However, the technology seems to be a bit amateur as I keep getting an error message saying that I need a new transmitter…GoogleShould you decide to set your iGoogle page to the beach theme, then every night at 3.14am the Loch-Ness monster itself will appear for around 60 seconds. All other themes have 3.14am specials, for instance the City theme has UFOs, the Seasonal scape the Northern Lights and a monster in the spring theme.GoogleOur first funny “Did you mean?” Google programmers thought that it would be funny if when you put the word ‘anagram’ into the search bar, it asks you if you meant the phrase ‘nag a ram’ as it’s an anagram of the word ‘anagram’. Get it?GoogleGoogle are now offering free broadband, the latest in internet technology is connected for you deep underground after you flush one end down your toilet. This joke was never really funny and only really made the list because I assume at least one foolish person out there fell for it.Google
Google's latest hit search term, 'Do a Barrel Roll' has gone viral, with millions of people searching the term, but what else is out there? Here are our ten favourite Google Easter eggs, jokes and hoaxes.
