Friday, August 22, 2014

Fun Google Search Easter Eggs Work With Query Refinements

Here are some Google Easter Egg search queries you can use to mess with your friends.

Google is a big fan of doing easter eggs, and we’ve covered many of them in the past including ones that mess around with the display of the search results listing page. They include the do a barrel roll and blink HTML examples.
But did you know they work with query refinements, as well? Because of that, you can really mess around with your friends using Google.
For example, one of your friends tells you “my head is spinning.” Why not send them to a search result page that triggers the [do a barrel roll] query but displays results for the query [my head is spinning]. Here is an animated GIF of what they would see:

 

Or what if they complain about eye problems? Send them to a search result for the blink html easter egg but for the search query [eye problems]. Here is an animated GIF of what they would see:
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