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The American technology company Google has added Easter eggs into many of its products and services, such as Google Search, YouTube, and Android since the 2000s. [1] [2] Google avoids adding Easter eggs to popular search pages, as they do not want to negatively impact usability. [3] [4]
While unofficial and not maintained by Google itself, elgooG is a website that contains all Google Easter eggs, whether or not Google has discontinued them.
As Google searches are case insensitive, [5] search terms listed are referred to in lower case.
A Google web search for:
A Google web search for:
A Google web search for:
Searching for "google birthday surprise spinner " will result in a wheel that spins to one of a selection of playable Google Doodles, tools (see above) and games. Whichever is randomly selected may be opened, or the wheel may be spun again. It was added in celebration of Google's 19th birthday. [90]
In late 2011, Google added a graphical calculator to search results, [116] [117] using natural language processing to determine that search results might be mathematical in nature. [118] [119] Woven into this feature are several, not entirely academic, results which might be considered Easter eggs. [120]
A Google web search for:
Trigger location or occasion | Pegman's appearance | Reference |
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Dragged onto Legoland in Carlsbad | Lego minifigure | [142] |
Dragged onto Sun Valley, Idaho | Skier | [143] |
Dragged onto the coast of Hawaii , Florida , Bali , or The Galápagos Islands | Mermaid | [144] |
Dragged onto Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, CA | Wearing a tie-dyed shirt | [145] |
Dragged near the Arthur Ashe Stadium, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park | Tennis player holding a racket | [146] |
Dragged near the Kennedy Space Center | Astronaut | [147] |
Dragged around Groom Lake in Nevada and Area 51 | UFO | [148] |
Dragged around the southern point of Half Moon Island, Antarctica, where Streetview is available | Penguin | [122] |
Loch Ness | Green Loch Ness Monster wearing a tartan hat | [149] |
Around some royal residences, such as Buckingham Palace (and the surrounding palaces), The Palace of Holyroodhouse and Hillsborough Castle | A representation of Queen Elizabeth II, "PegMa'am". Following the death of Elizabeth II in 2022, this Easter egg was removed. | [150] [151] [152] |
For the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Star Wars Stormtrooper or X-wing fighter pilot | [153] |
For the release of the video game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD for the Wii U | Link holding a Master Sword and a Hylian Shield | [154] |
Around February 8, the launch day of Google Maps [155] | Dressed as a birthday cake | [156] |
For Google Street View's 10th birthday & for the user's birthday | As if he is celebrating a birthday, wearing a red and white striped miniature party hat and holding three pastel violet, pink, and blue balloons in his right hand. A similar appearance was used on Street View's 15th anniversary on April 24–25, 2022. | [157] |
Viewing past Street Views | Emmett "Doc" Brown, one of the protagonists from the Back to the Future universe | [158] |
Halloween | Rides a broomstick | [159] |
Valentine's Day | Stands upon a heart | [159] |
Christmas week | Snowman | [159] |
I'm feeling | Result |
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Doodley | Random Google Doodle |
Artistic | Random Google art project |
Hungry | Google search for "restaurants" or "dinner recipes" |
Trendy | Google Hot Trends |
Adventurous | Random probability-related Google widget |
Stellar | Random space-related image search |
Funny | Random humor-related Google search or Charlie Chaplin's Google Doodle |
Curious | Random question and answer or Google easter egg search |
Playful | Random interactive Google Doodle |
Puzzled (discontinued) | "A Google A Day" home page |
Wonderful (discontinued) | Random "World Wonder" project |
Generous (discontinued) | Google "One Today" homepage |
Google offers interfaces for several different fictional languages. Users can set any of these languages (except pig Latin) as their search settings' preferred language. [168]
Language | URL |
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Bork | www.google.com/?hl=xx-bork |
Elmer Fudd | www.google.com/?hl=xx-elmer |
Hacker (Leet) | www.google.com/?hl=xx-hacker |
Klingon | www.google.com/?hl=xx-klingon |
Pig Latin | www.google.com/?hl=xx-piglatin |
Pirate | www.google.com/?hl=xx-pirate |
A YouTube search for:
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)If you Google Thanos, or the Infinity Gauntlet, the search results shows a preview of the Wikipedia page on the Titan as always. But unlike other search results, a small graphic image of Infinity Gauntlet has been added next to Thanos and Infinity Gauntlet on the preview of Wikipedia page.
Although you used to be able to access the game by searching through the Images section of Google Search, that's no longer the case