Google is a really functional search engine, since it offers quick and easy results for everything we are looking for, but sometimes it happens that it goes further, and this search engine also integrates hidden functions that can attract our attention, that is why today we are going to show you ten of the Easter eggs that it offers.
The Dinosaur Game
You always have to start with one of the great classics, and it is probably one of the best-known Easter eggs of this search engine, the dinosaur game represents a very important part of this search engine, so much so that it has become a popular icon of the same. As we well know, to play it is enough to lose the Internet connection, or directly access the file that allows us to play from the browser by searching chrome://dino/.
The Last of Us
The Last of Us games and series have had a great impact on popular culture, quickly becoming a work recognized by many people, beyond those who had only seen or played this title. This is why Google also has a representation in its search engine, and if we search for the name of this video game series, a mushroom will appear at the bottom, which, once clicked, will fill our screen with the cordyceps that cause the fungal infection.
Flip a coin or roll a die
Gambling games have been around for a long time, and they also have a representation in this search engine, since it offers us the function of both throwing a coin in the air and throwing a die of any type and shape. To use the dice function, we just have to write “throw a die”, but if we want to try to throw a coin, we will probably have to write it in English (throw a coin), since it does not work in any case if we try to write it in Spanish.
Metronome and tuner
Among all the hidden functions of Google, we can also find both a metronome and a tuner, it is not much more mysterious since its use is quite simple, with the metronome we can choose the PPM to give the rhythm, while with the tuner we can, for example, calibrate our microphone.
Anagram
Google Easter eggs do not have to be all functional, and it is really a joke created by developers when searching for “anagram” or “define anagram”, and if we do one of these two searches in the spellchecker (Maybe you meant) will show us an anagram of that word. For example, if we search for “anagram”, we will get “Maybe you meant: gamma frog”, while if we search for “define anagram”, the search will show us “Maybe you meant: burst amendment”.
Sonic and Mario
As we saw with The Last of Us, some of the most important icons of popular video game culture are also represented in Google’s hidden elements, and both Sonic and Mario have their own hidden functions in this search engine. If we write “Sonic the Hedgehog”, we can see an icon of the character in the search result, which, when clicked, will make the legendary movement and sound of the games, while if we search for “Super Mario”, we will see the block icon “?”, if we click, it will make a sound, show a coin and indicate 200, if we click several times, it will also make a sound indicating that we have progressed.
Google Doodles
Google’s most famous Easter eggs are its Doodles, and these images or games have already become one of the icons of the search engine itself, allowing users to know a notable date simply by accessing the browser. If we want to see all the ones it has had, just search for “Google Doodles” in the browser itself and this will allow us to see these images and even use the games they have.
I feel curious
Another implementation that can be found in this search engine is when searching for “I feel curious”, which does not allow searching in a language other than English, and does not work if we use the apostrophe. In this case, searching for this phrase will offer us a random curious fact among all those that are on the Internet, which means that we will have hours and hours of unlimited curious facts.
The answer of life
As we have seen before, it is not uncommon for Google to refer to popular culture and, in this case, it also offers us the answer to life based on Douglas Adams’ work “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in which a supercomputer known as Deep Thought, he defines that the meaning of life is 42. If we search for the phrase “answer to life, the universe and everything”, Google will show us a calculator with the phrase and with only one result, the number 42.
3D Easter Egg
And finally, we have one of the strangest Easter eggs of the search engine, and it is something that in most cases we could not find because it is not a normal or common search, and it is a 3D rendering of a graph. When you search for an equation, we will get the rendered result, you can try to do it, for example, with the following equation: 1.2+(sqrt(1-(sqrt(x^2+y^2))^2) + 1 – x^ 2-y^2) * (sin (10000 * (x*3+y/5+7))+1/4) from -1.6 to 1.6
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