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Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

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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.

However, autocomplete will fill out the rest of the query for the user to see, so they should get a fair idea if they are paying attention... which they should be when the contents suddenly spins.

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

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I just realized that such popular memes, contribute in eating away at Internet Explorer's market when they don't work on it. People who for months could not be bothered to even just upgrade to IE7 or 8, are now more than willing to download and install another browser, just to see google "do a barrel roll".

Yep, an occasional HTML5 Easter Egg could nudge people to upgrade. How about a few written in WebGL?

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

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As far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion

As far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion

As far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion

Re: Do a barrel roll - Google Search

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As far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion

As far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3193544
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