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Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”
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Re: Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”
#12Whatever our criticisms of Google, it's part of our internet culture in sometimes weird and wonderful ways. This seems kind of like a little happy dance for the world after so much hand wringing and legitimate worry.
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#13It's got a real Geocities marquee vibe to it, as all Easter eggs should.
I wonder how much maintenance and testing these things add. Sure it would be trivial to get it working now, but they must have to do so many checks to see its not breaking on other browsers and then that it doesn't cause issues in the future.
Re: Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”
#14Looks like it only work on desktop. (“Request desktop site” in Chrome mobile works).
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#15Gee I’m glad to see their real issue backlog is now empty so they have time to do this kind of bandwidth-wasting, cycle-sucking garbage.
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#16Gee I’m glad to see their real issue backlog is now empty so they have time to do this kind of bandwidth-wasting, cycle-sucking garbage.
Barely bandwidth wasting since they're using the official ship emoji vs shipping an image.
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#17It's got a real Geocities marquee vibe to it, as all Easter eggs should.
I have to admit, until today I thought Geocities is a Yahoo Japan only thing..
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#18Yeah these things no longer cover up the fact that they try to turn you into a serial killer on youtube or that your search results are mostly useless ads
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#19> Easter eggs can be a way for software engineers and designers to put a bit of their own personality into the product through humor and wit. They're a way of saying, 'I made this and I love it.' Their hidden nature means that those who discover them are likely to be people who spend a lot of time using the product.
> This act of discovery is great for building an emotional connection between the people who create software products and the people who use them. Finding an Easter egg is a great experience — like finding buried treasure — and sharing that experience can be fun, too. It's a little gift for true fans that goes a long way towards making people feel like they're part of the club.
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-gb/advertising-chann...
Wikipedia has a massive list of Google's Easter eggs:
Re: Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”
#20Looks like it’s desktop only. On mobile I had to toggle on ‘Request desktop site’ to see the ships scrolling across the top of the search results. Cute Easter egg lol
Toss in some requirements about encoding compatibility, javascript, etc., sprinkle in presumably a couple layers of PMs, and I'm curious how close to EnterpriseFizzBuzz [0] the implementation of a simple hack like this actually is.
[0]: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...