Do a barrel roll - Google Search • Hacker News Board

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#51

Post by bengl » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:02 PM UTC

You can make this happen on any arbitrary page, just for fun.

https://gist.github.com/1337458

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#52

Post by ot » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:03 PM UTC

gacba wrote: post #46

ot wrote: post #6

Note the bug: "do a barrel roll" skyrocketed at the top of the suggestion lists for "do a ". So if you have Google Instant enabled, just typing "do a " will instant-search "do a barrel roll" and trigger the effect. I'm sure this wasn't intended.

Actually, according to a recent Google blog post, this is exactly what should happen for hot trending searches. They tweaked the algorithm to make hot search topics bubble up in the suggestion box and return relevant results for recent news.

Of course, what I am saying is that as a side-effect the easter egg is triggered even if just "do a " is entered, rather than the full key-query.

That's why it doesn't make sense as an easter egg: "do a " is a frequent prefix, people looking for something else could be annoyed by the effect.

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#53

Post by thyrsus » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:08 PM UTC

Not working for me; I thought it might be https everwhere or the google https search option, but turning those off didn't produce the effect. Firefox 3.6.23 on Fedora 14.

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#54

Post by lanstein » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:11 PM UTC

Would be a good keyword to advertise on, startups!

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#55

Post by jasonkostempski » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:14 PM UTC

ori_b wrote: post #37

swah wrote: post #34

No money for labs, but this...

Labs wasn't about money. It was about moving away from half baked unmaintained releases and towards producing products that the company would be willing to support properly.

I read that as "moving away from half baked unanimated releases".

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#56

Post by andrewpi » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:16 PM UTC

jcsalterego wrote: post #29

andrewpi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Works in Safari too.

Doesn't for me in 5.1.1 (6534.51.22) or the latest WebKit nightly.

Strange, I'm on 5.1.1 (7534.51.22) and it's working here.

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#57

Post by iliis » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:19 PM UTC

EwanToo wrote: post #2

Only works in Chrome or Firefox, pretty fun :)

Nah, my Chrome crashes ^^ (Version 15.0.874.106 on 64bit Fedora)

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#58

Post by savrajsingh » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:20 PM UTC

Is this Google's response to Siri? :)

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#59

Post by endtime » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:24 PM UTC

savrajsingh wrote: post #58

Is this Google's response to Siri? :)

Yes, because easter eggs didn't exist before the iPhone 4S.

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

#60

Post by program » Thu, Nov 03, 2011, 7:29 PM UTC

Timothee wrote: post #50

deano wrote: post #45

this one always amused me - http://www.google.com/search?q=88mph*1.21+gigawatts

What's the Easter Egg?

In the movie saga "Back to the future" the DeLorean time machine needs to travel at 88 mph and the flux capacitor needs 1.21 gigawatts of power in order to activate the time circuits.