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Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by sev »

neiled wrote: post #4

I wonder how Google deal with all these little easter eggs from a code perspective. It's pretty impressive that they can add so much extra to a particular search term without it affecting the overall code quality.

I would imagine each search term being something like a key in a database, and each key has an associated field which can link to anything they want. That linker probably then gets attached to a "hook" on their site.

It's just a matter of adding in the hooked code into the associated field in the DB.

I know I over simplified this, but I would assume that's the gist.

Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by ehamberg »

LinaLauneBaer wrote: post #9

This easter egg is referring to the game StarCraft 2 by Blizzard. There are three fractions in StarCraft 2: Protoss, Terran and Zerg. Imagine the Zerg like aliens. Zergs have a unit called "the Zergling" which is a small creature that usually attacks buildings and enemy units in groups. If you have a lot of Zerglings and run to your opponents fast this can be called "a Zergling rush". There are also custom maps that…

Well, I would say that it refers to the Starcraft series. I'm so old that I remember the first Starcraft game – and I'm quite sure it had Zerg. ;)

Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by ralfd »

LinaLauneBaer wrote: post #9

This easter egg is referring to the game StarCraft 2 by Blizzard. There are three fractions in StarCraft 2: Protoss, Terran and Zerg. Imagine the Zerg like aliens. Zergs have a unit called "the Zergling" which is a small creature that usually attacks buildings and enemy units in groups. If you have a lot of Zerglings and run to your opponents fast this can be called "a Zergling rush". There are also custom maps that…

Finally the secret identity of "StarcraftJokeExplainer" is revealed!

Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by doktrin »

ehamberg wrote: post #12
LinaLauneBaer wrote: post #9

This easter egg is referring to the game StarCraft 2 by Blizzard. There are three fractions in StarCraft 2: Protoss, Terran and Zerg. Imagine the Zerg like aliens. Zergs have a unit called "the Zergling" which is a small creature that usually attacks buildings and enemy units in groups. If you have a lot of Zerglings and run to your opponents fast this can be called "a Zergling rush". There are also custom maps that…

Well, I would say that it refers to the Starcraft series. I'm so old that I remember the first Starcraft game – and I'm quite sure it had Zerg. ;)

Yeah, the 'zerg' meme originates from Starcraft. It's been commonly used (often pejoratively) in gaming circles to describe situations in which superior numbers dictated the outcome of an encounter.

On an unrelated note, it's rather depressing to think of the original StarCraft game as being something 'old people' remember. I'm 29.

Edit : I was kind of surprised to see this meme explicitly explained. I've always thought of it as being one of the most ubiquitous out there.

Re: Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg

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Post by DanBC »

doktrin wrote: post #14
ehamberg wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I would say that it refers to the Starcraft series. I'm so old that I remember the first Starcraft game – and I'm quite sure it had Zerg. ;)

Yeah, the 'zerg' meme originates from Starcraft. It's been commonly used (often pejoratively) in gaming circles to describe situations in which superior numbers dictated the outcome of an encounter. On an unrelated note, it's rather depressing to think of the original StarCraft game as being something 'old people' remember. I'm 29. Edit : I was kind of surprised to see this meme explicitly explained. I've always thou…

> On an unrelated note, it's rather depressing to think of the original StarCraft game as being something 'old people' remember. I'm 29.

Do you remember a time before Google? Google was started the same year as Starcraft was released - 1998.

(Weirdly Armageddon and Deep Impact were released in 1998)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_film)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998)

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