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Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

#11

Post by pixelbeat » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

Added to my list, thanks.

http://www.pixelbeat.org/misc/google_search_easter_eggs.html

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

#12

Post by apgwoz » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:36 PM UTC

hashBlue wrote: post #2

not for me

Didn't work in Firefox for me, but worked in Chromium.

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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Post by alainbryden » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:37 PM UTC

pixelbeat wrote: post #11

Added to my list, thanks. http://www.pixelbeat.org/misc/google_search_easter_eggs.html

Looks like "ascii art" and "comic sans" are retired :(

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

#14

Post by missing_cipher » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:39 PM UTC

jonmwords wrote: post #4

Here's the interview I published with the creator! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how-a-google-engineer-b...

Great read. Thanks. :)

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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Post by smcl » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:42 PM UTC

pixelbeat wrote: post #11

Added to my list, thanks. http://www.pixelbeat.org/misc/google_search_easter_eggs.html

hey pixelbeat, another one for the list - looks like "octal" returns the number of search results in octal

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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Post by moreati » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:44 PM UTC

jbperry wrote: post #3

hashBlue wrote: post #2

not for me

If you are on a big screen, it might not be obvious. It's in the upper right and it's very subtle.

Very, very subtle. I had to adjust the angle of the screen

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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Post by Semaphor » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

apgwoz wrote: post #12

hashBlue wrote: post #2

not for me

Didn't work in Firefox for me, but worked in Chromium.

working in FF for me:)

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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Post by alainbryden » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:52 PM UTC

pixelbeat wrote: post #11

Added to my list, thanks. http://www.pixelbeat.org/misc/google_search_easter_eggs.html

There's a bunch more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google%27s_hoaxes_and_e...

Like "zerg rush", "kerning" and "keming", searching for bacon numbers, etc...

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

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Post by nsxwolf » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:52 PM UTC

Cool! A glider crawled all the way across my browser.

Re: Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

#20

Post by jonmwords » Fri, Oct 12, 2012, 4:56 PM UTC

missing_cipher wrote: post #14

jonmwords wrote: post #4

Here's the interview I published with the creator! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how-a-google-engineer-b...

Great read. Thanks. :)

Glad you liked it. I'm glad people are finding out about this and think it's as cool as I do.