Google is the most popular search engine which is used daily by one billion people from all parts of the world. All websites and everything you are interested in will be displayed in the search results and on the first page appear the websites with the best traffic, according to their relevance. But the users don’t know there are a bunch of cool tricks which are hidden by Google’s engineers in unexpected places. Fortunately, some employees leaked a few of these “Easter eggs” and tricks and we’ll give you a list of the most important secrets of this search engine.
Google in 1998
If you will type Google in 1998, you will make a journey through time and you will see how Google looked in that year.
Jason Isaacs
By writing Jason Isaacs in the search box, Google will give you a page which says Hello to him, but remember that this trick works only if you live in the UK.
Bacon Number
You’ve most likely heard of the famous actor Kevin Bacon, who said in 1994 that he worked with everybody at Hollywood. Or, at least there were some rumors about him saying that, but only in 2007 many websites wrote about his claim. As a response, Bacon launched a charitable website called Six Degrees about everyone who worked with him, through chain of six acquaintances. Now, the website is called The Oracle of Bacon and everyone can search for the name of a person which might have worked with this actor.
How many horns does a unicorn have?
If you ask Google this question, the search engine will calculate the number of of horns on a unicorn and will answer you: 1.
Epic Google
If you’ll type toobigtouse.com in the address bar, you will be redirected to Google’s search page, but its fonts and content will continue to increase in size until it will become too large to read.
Celebrating the holidays with Google
When searching for a holiday, Google returns a page decorated with items specific to that holiday – Christmas will have pages decorated with Christmas lights, but you will get similar results when it comes to other holidays as well: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Halloween and Festivus.
Who is the cutest?
If you want to find out the answer to this question, type it in the search bar. The answer will make you smile.
Annoying Google
If you are bored and want to be annoyed by Google, type this phrase and you will be taken to a search page when each word has alternate capital and small letters, and you will struggle to decipher expressions.
Kerning
This option will adjust spaces between characters, so when you search Google for Kerning and have personalized results disabled, you will see that the spacing of the word Kerning is different.
Do a barrel roll
When typing this phrase, Google does a 360 degree spin. Literally. This is a tribute to Star Fox, which was a video game series created by Nintendo.
Zerg Rush
When typing Google for Zerg Rush, one of the O’s from Google will start “attacking” the search results page, one by one. If you want to “kill” the O, just click on it.
Enable Pirate language
The fans of Black Sails will love this trick, as it enables the Pirate language, as on Facebook. The pirate version of Google is awesome, and to enable the language, just type Google Pirate.
Google Rainbow
Typing this phrase will take you to the search homepage and you will see each element changing its color to create a rainbow.
Google Sphere
Type this phrase and you will see images dancing in circular motion. This trick works on Chrome, Firefox and IE9.
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