List of Google Easter eggs

For a list of the company's April Fools' Day jokes and hoaxes, see List of Google April Fools' Day jokes.

The American technology company Google has added Easter eggs into many of its products and services, such as Google Search, YouTube, and Android since the 2000s.

A Pacman related interactive Google Doodle from 2010 will be shown to users searching for "google pacman" or "play pacman".

Easter eggs are hidden features or messages that most people are oblivious to, as well as inside jokes and cultural references inserted into media. They are often well hidden, so that users find it gratifying when they discover them, helping form bonds between their creators and finders. They are mostly found in video games, yet Google does make their own. Google's employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time for projects of personal interest, and Easter eggs are sometimes created during this. Google avoids adding Easter eggs to popular search pages, as they do not want to negatively impact usability.

While unofficial and not maintained by Google themselves, elgooG is a website which contains all Google Easter eggs, whether or not they have been discontinued by Google.

Google Search

Further information: Google Search

As Google searches are case insensitive, search terms are listed in lower case except where case sensitivity is explicitly referred.

General

• "Snoop Dogg" will show at the top scrolled emojis of a badminton racket and ball along with a comment, said by American rapper Snoop Dogg at the NBC during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. However, after the Olympics, this was discontinued.
• "Total Eclipse 2024" makes an eclipse appear (also works with Solar eclipse)
• "2022 FIFA World Cup" or "World Cup 2022" makes Argentina's flag appear. Argentina won the edition of the World Cup.
• "Women's World Cup 2023" makes Spain's flag appear. Spain won that edition of the Women's World Cup.
• "2/22/22" or "Twosday" would make confetti appear with number 2's and a phrase saying "Happy Twosday 2You!" on February 22, 2022.
• "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" resulted in the same tilted, scrolling style that the introductions to the original Star Wars movies were presented in. This included the music, which was muted but could be heard by clicking on or selecting the muted speaker icon on the page. However, this was discontinued on June 28, 2017.
• "ascii art" showed the logo as if it was created with ASCII characters. This has been discontinued.
• "askew" causes the results page to be slightly tilted to the right. This effect once worked for the Google search of "tilt".
• "baby yoda", "grogu", "the child", "the mandalorian" or "Din Grogu" will bring up a Grogu (baby yoda) image button on the bottom right corner of the screen; when pressed, Grogu will use the force to pull off a result and throw it to the bottom of the screen. It is possible to press the button multiple times to remove more results. As of 10/2/2024, this has been discontinued.
• "barbie", "ryan gosling", or " margot robbie", shows little rose fireworks and then, the interface changes to color rose. This was made for the 2023 Barbie movie. As of 8/28/2023, this has been discontinued.
• "binary", "hex", "hexadecimal" and "octal" showed the number of search results in the respective numeral system. This has been discontinued.
• "<blink>", "blink tag", or "blink html" includes samples of the blink element in the results.
• "Cha Cha Slide" adds a glittering microphone next to the link to the official music video. Click it through each stage, and it will recreate the main chorus in the browser. In August 2023 this easter egg had disappeared temporarily, due to DJ Casper's passing on August 7, 2023. The easter egg has since been restored.
• "chicxulub", "chicxulub asteroid", or "meteorite" will show an asteroid falling on the results page. The whole page will then shake slightly.
• "christmas", "hanukkah", and "kwanzaa" will show decorations next to the search bar for each respective holiday. The feature used to be only active during the month of December. Each year, new decorations are shown. "hanukkah" changes the "Goooo...gle" page indicator at the bottom of every result page to show Hanukkah cakes instead of O's.
• "Cricket World Cup", "2023 Cricket World Cup", a minigame titled Mini Cup is shown allowing selections from the various teams participating in the 13th-edition of the Cricket World Cup, the game features batting with a tally of the teams having the highest scores.
• "conway's game of life" on a desktop browser generates a running configuration of the game to the right of the search results. The process can also be stopped and altered by the user.
• "Comic Sans", "Geocities", "Design fails", "Bad UX", "best font ever", "Vincent Connare" and "90s websites" will change the search results to the Comic Sans font.
• "Times New Roman font" will change the search results to the Times New Roman font.
• "Georgia font" will change the search results to the Georgia font.
• "Verdana font" will change the search results to the Verdana font.
• "Tahoma font" will change the search results to the Tahoma font.
• "Arial font" will change the search results to the Arial font.
• "Trebuchet MS" will change the search results to the Trebuchet MS font.
• "Impact font" will change the search results to the Impact font.
• "Calibri" will change the search results to the Calibri font.
• "Cambria font" will change the search results to the Cambria font.
• "Courier font" will change the search results to the Courier font.
• "Roboto" will change the search results to the Roboto font.
• "Garamond" will change the search results to the Garamond font.
• "Open Sans" will change the search results to the Open Sans font.
• "Amatic SC font" will change the search results to the Amatic SC font. This was one of the fonts made by Vernon Adams before his death.
• "Permanent Marker font" will change the search results to the Permanent Marker font.
• "DART asteroid" will show the probe hitting an asteroid, tilting the screen.
• "diwali" will show a lamp which when clicked starts a lamp lighting game.
• "do a barrel roll" or "z or r twice" causes the result page to do a Star Fox-style barrel roll.
• "drag queen", "gay pride", "homosexuality", "stonewall" and other LGBTQ+-related searches, at times of gay pride festival activity, cause the results page to have a rainbow themed header.
• "drop bear" will show a sign that when clicked will cause a drop bear to fall
• "dutch angle" shows the results page in a slightly tilted angle.
• "dvd screensaver" causes the Google logo on the top left corner of the screen to bounce around the screen, shifting colors between blue, red, yellow, and green every time it hits the page boundaries.
  • Every time the tab currently engaged in the Easter egg is returned to after being clicked out of, the bouncing logo will always be in a position where it hits perfectly into a corner.
  • This feature is disabled if a major google doodle is occurring instead of the normal google logo.
• "easter" changes the "Gooo...gle" page indicator at the bottom of every result page to show Easter eggs instead of o's.
• "festivus" shows an image of the Festivus pole beside the search results and the message "A festivus miracle!" next to the number of search results.
• "fifa" and "world cup", during FIFA World Cup 2010, caused the "Goooo...gle" page indicator at the bottom of every result page to read "Goooo...al!" instead.
• "fireworks", "fourth of july" and other search terms containing "firework", on US Independence Day – July 4th, will display simulated multi-colored fireworks for several seconds.
• "Forrest Gump", a runner appears at the top of the screen with more runners following him as he runs.
• Searches related to "Flyana Boss" will have two female runner emojis glide across above the search.
• "Friends glossary" will show definitions for quotes in the show
• "google in 1998" on a desktop browser will generate a layout similar to the one Google used for its search engine in 1998.
• "Ghostbusters" around October will have three ghost emojis, followed by a van emoji, glide across over the search.
• "googly eyes" will cause a pair of googly eyes to slide from the top of the page to cover each letter "O" in the top Google logo. The eyes will slowly follow the location of one's cursor.
  • The same googly eyes appear when actors from Everything Everywhere All at Once are Googled (e.g. "michelle yeoh", "ke huy quan", "stephanie hsu"), in reference to the movie.
• "Halloween" formerly resulted in a Ghost appearing in the knowledge panel and when clicked, plays the 2016 Halloween Google Doodle. The search now shows the green team ghosts of the 2018 and 2022 Halloween doodles appearing over the screen.
• "haunted house" will bring up emojis of houses and spider webs above the results section.
• "heartstopper" will cause a trio of animated leaves to glide across the page.
• "Isaac Newton" an icon of a tree appears, which when clicked, drops an apple onto the page.
• "It Follows" will cause an animation of a walking person emoji chasing a running person emoji to glide across the page.
• "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" around October will have a pumpkin and football emoji appear over the search.
• "Indian Premier League" or "IPL" will display yellow and blue fireworks in celebration of Chennai Super Kings victory over Kolkata Knight Riders during the 2021 Indian Premier League (no longer works as of October 30, 2021).
• "Inside Out 2" will display a button in the bottom of the screen which when clicked, will show a machine dispensing a memory orb every time the button is clicked. This was to celebrate the release of the film on June 14, 2024. As of September 2024, this has been discontinued.
• "is google down" returns with "No"
• "Is the earth flat" returns with "No, the Earth is roughly a sphere." Similar queries include "is the earth round" and "is the earth flat or round".
• "Jack O Lantern" ("jack o lantern") will have a jack o lantern emoji appear over the search.
• "Jawan" (""), "Shah Rukh Khan" ("") shows a walkie talkie which plays an audio, on being pressed, of Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan speaking "ready" and covers the screen with bandages; referencing the vigilante character in the 2023 film played by Khan. This has since been discontinued.
• "kerning" will add spaces between the letters of the word "kerning" in the search results. Kerning refers to the process of adjusting the space between letters in a word.
  • "" will remove spaces between the letters of the word "keming". This refers to improper kerning, particularly when not enough space is used between letters, which can cause mistakes like "kerning" to be read as "keming".
• "la tomatina" will add an animation of a jumping tomato next to the summary of Tomatina. When clicked, one can now throw tomatoes onto the website by clicking anywhere, referencing the festival. At the bottom, a button also appears to wash the thrown tomatoes off.
• "lunar new year", "chinese new year", or "year of the rabbit" caused fireworks to shoot up in the search page. Occasionally, a firework formed a rabbit silhouette. This was to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit in Lunar New Year in 2023. This has been removed recently.
• "", "marquee tag", or "marquee html" will apply the marquee element to the results count at the top of the results.
• "memorial day" on Memorial Day will start a sequence saying "For all who sacrificed" and "Thank you" with poppies at the bottom.
• Nearing the 2024 theatrical release, searching "Mean Girls" (either the 2004 film or the 2024 musical film ) will show a pencil icon, turning the screen pink and allowing one to click and place icons from the "Burn Book". The 2011 sequel apparently is not affected.
• meteor shower will dim the screen and have a group of three meteors pass through it diagonally before returning to normal.
• "minecraft" adds a grass block button that when pressed shows Steve’s hand in the corner. Clicking on parts of the screen has the hand mine away that section, revealing a small Minecraft area. Steve can continue mining blocks to upgrade his pickaxe.
• "nasa dart" showed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test satellite crashing and making the screen tilted. This was discontinued on February 22, 2023 for these specific terms, but similar terms such as "dart mission" and "double asteroid redirection test" still show the animation.
• "new year's eve 2022" will show a party popper near the top of the search page. Clicking it will cause confetti to appear. This easter egg also works with other years replacing 2023 (i.e. "new year's eve 2019").
• "Perseverance rover" causes a small animated drone, which represents the flying probe ingenuity. Clicking on this will transform the screen into the landscape or Mars.
• "pele", or "Pelé" causes the Goooo...gle page indicator at the bottom of the page to read Gooo..al instead, with the last "o" replaced by a soccer ball. If one clicks this soccer ball, or the #10 under it, then it will play an animation where the a is kicking the soccer ball, and the 'G' kicks it into the 'l', which has turned into a soccer goal. This Easter egg was made to honor the 80th birthday of the late soccer player Pelé.
• "pi" (or "calculator" and pressing P on the keyboard) and clicking the "π" symbol will start a memory game similar to Simon, in which the calculator highlights the digits of pi and prompts one to repeat the sequence. The sequence gets longer every turn. The high-score can be stored but will reset after reloading the page. The highest score possible is 314 digits.
• "puppy", "puppies", "dog" or "canine" will result in a button appearing in the panel that, when clicked, will cause any following clicks to bring a dog leg out and place a paw print at the mouse position, with a bark sound played.
  • A similar result appears if one types "kitten" or "cat" (but not "feline" or "kitty") where a near identical button appears, and instead of dog paw prints, and dog arms, it shows cat paw prints with a cat's arm. it also makes a cat meow to match.
• "qibla" and "eid al fitr"(or "eid'l fitr" and "eid al-fitr") will cause the "Goooo...gle" page indicator at the bottom of every result page to show nine cups and a pitcher instead.
• "ramadan" during the month of Ramadan will allow the initiation of a search of an image of a night sky for a crescent moon by clicking an image of a crescent moon in the Knowledge Panel. Upon finding the crescent moon, one is congratulated with the message "You found it! Ramadan Kareem to you and your loved ones!" as lanterns drop into view. This also worked during Eid al-Fitr month, but the message at the end was changed to "You found it! Eid Mubarak to you and your loved ones!"
• "rabbit rabbit rabbit" shows three emojis of rabbits moving up and down at the top of the screen.
• "rat czar" caused a rat emoji and crown emoji to move across the result count area, as a reference to New York City's appointed director of rodent mitigation, referred to as the "Rat Czar". As of 28 August 2024, this has been removed.
• "RRR" ("rrr") shows an emoji of a horse rider and a person biking emoji, referencing the characters of Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem from the 2022 Indian film.
• "star wars" and other Star Wars related search terms on May 4 (Star Wars Day) summons a splash of confetti, some confetti being characters/items from the Star Wars series.
• "suez canal" or "ever given" showed an emoji of a boat scrolling across the top of the screen, referencing the ending of the 2021 Suez canal obstruction.
• "superb owl" around the time of the Super Bowl will show a Knowledge Graph for the Super Bowl, along with a games' information panel titled "Superb owl" with an image of an owl wearing a crown, in response to an ongoing joke amongst Redditors about the common misspelling of "Super Bowl". This has been discontinued.
• "Super Bowl" will show a black and red firework display in celebration of Kansas City Chiefs victory over Philadelphia Eagles. In February 2021 the fireworks celebrated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers victory over Kansas City Chiefs.
• "1989 (Taylor's Version)" or "Taylor Swift" for the majority of people shows a blue vault that when clicked opens and displays several different characters. The solution to these scrambled characters is 1989 (Taylor's Version). As of 19 September 2023, it will instead open and give the user one out of 89 different letter combinations that each spell out a quote from Taylor Swift. It also shows that there needs to be 33 million puzzles solved globally to reveal an audio message and visuals that reveal the titles of the so-called "Vault Tracks" on the 1989 (Taylor's Version) album.
• "The Nightmare Before Christmas" around October will have various emojis of pumpkins, gifts, scorpions, swords, bombs, and bones glide over the search.
• "text adventure" using most popular modern browsers (except Safari) and opening the browser's developer console will trigger a text-based adventure game playable within the console. Responding "no" to "would you like to play a game" will print "the only winning move is not to play" in the console, referencing WarGames.
• "the last of us" or "cordyceps" will bring up a red mushroom button; when pressed, cordyceps will appear on the screen. It is possible to press the button several times to multiply the mushrooms.
• "Toni Stone" on February 9 will have a splash of confetti.
• "velma" will show confetti along with pride and lesbian flags. This was added after Velma was confirmed to be a lesbian.
• "webdriver torso" turns the Google logo into moving colored blocks. This is a reference to an automated YouTube channel made by Google to test YouTube's performance. This does not work on mobile devices or when there is a Google Doodle on that day.
• "wordle" will turn the Google logo into a round of Wordle and guess the words COLUMN, GOALIE, and GOOGLE.
• "zerg rush" causes an army of Google Os to attack and destroy the search results, which could be defeated by clicking on them. Once one got defeated (as victory is impossible), the Os form two Gs (GG), meaning "Good Game". This easter egg appears to have been discontinued.
• "it" has a scared emoji being chased left and right near the search bar by a clown emoji with 3 balloons behind the clown. This a reference to the "IT" book (written by Stephen King) and Films (directed by Andy Muschietti) as "Pennywise the dancing clown"'s/"It"'s victims are usually kids who have fears that "IT"/"Pennywise the dancing clown" can exploit. The red balloons are the most common tactic that "Pennywise the dancing clown"/"It" uses to make their victims scared. Famously, it is used in the opening scene in the book, first movie in the reboot films and in the "IT" TV miniseries where "Pennywise the dancing clown"/"It" uses a red balloon to lure Georgie into the sewer.
• Valentine's Day ("valentine's day") will show a H and Cl with a heart next to the H and Cl and when pressed, it will take one to a playable doodle of the Valentine's Day doodle from 2024 of the chemistry cupid game. (see it)
• When a Search result returns zero results, Google shows a cartoon-ish yeti fisherman trying to catch a fish in somewhere with ice. Clicking on the yeti will play an animation of the yeti catching a random object (e.g., a fish, a can of fish, a boot, and a bent can) in a hole, and then tossing it in a bucket. The boot and the bent can will result in the yeti becoming sad, and the fish and fish fossil will make him smile. This is only available when one is signed in.
• Searching any ongoing major tennis tournament (with men's singles and doubles, women's singles and doubles, and mixed doubles) will result in a Pong-like mini-game available by scrolling to the right of the scores. This mini-game is also available for past tennis tournaments by searching for the name of the tournament and the year in which the tournament was held.

Also search for

A Google web search for:

• "alex trebek" shows "Did you mean: who is alex trebek" in reference to Jeopardy!'s rule of answers being in the form of a question.
• "assistant regional manager" shows "Did you mean: assistant to the regional manager", referencing The Office.
• "anagram" shows "Did you mean: nag a ram".
  • "define anagram" shows "Did you mean: nerd fame again".
  • "anagram" and "define anagram" also work in other languages. For example, a Google ES search for "anagrama" shows Quizás quisiste decir: gama rana".
• "brighter" or "darker", will change the website theme if the user types the opposite of the browser's current theme.
• "bruno madrigal" shows "Did you mean: we don't talk about bruno", referencing the song from the movie Encanto.
• "chappell roan" shows "Did you mean: your favorite artist's favorite artist", and vice versa when searching "your favorite artist's favorite artist". This may be in reference to Roan's surge in popularity in 2023 and 2024, after she was an opening act for Olivia Rodrigo's Guts World Tour, mainly thanks to her songs going viral on TikTok.
• "emacs" shows "Did you mean: vi", and vice versa when searching "vi". This is a reference to the vi vs Emacs editor war.
• "mia thermopolis" shows "Did you mean: amelia mignonette thermopolis renaldi princess of genovia", referencing the protagonist in the film The Princess Diaries.
• "olivia newton john" shows "Did you mean: the one that i want", referencing the song You're the One That I Want.
• "recursion" shows a "Did you mean: recursion", linking to the same search over and over again.
  • "groundhog day" shows "Did you mean: groundhog day", linking to the same search over and over again, referencing the recursion present in the film of the same name.
• "snakecase vs camelcase" shows "Did you mean: snake_case vs camelcase", referencing the naming convention that underscores separate words in many programming languages.
• "steamed hams" shows "Did you mean: steamed clams", referencing The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield".
• "the one ring" shows "Did you mean: my precioussss" in reference to Gollum's name for it in The Lord of the Rings.
• "tina turner" shows "Did you mean: simply the best", referencing the song The Best.
• "war in ba sing se" shows "Did you mean: there is no war in Ba Sing Se". This is a reference to the show Avatar: The Last Airbender, in which characters try to prevent the rumors of war.
• "wingardium leviosa" shows "Did you mean: win gar dium levi ohhh sa" in reference to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, where a character corrects the pronunciation of a peer.
• "world's best boss" shows "Did you mean: Michael Scott", referencing The Office.
• "wubba lubba dub dub" shows "Did you mean: i am in great pain please help me", referencing the adult animated science fiction sitcom Rick and Morty. When using Google Assistant, it responds with "Are you in pain? How can I help?", "Sorry, I don't speak Birdperson" or "Morty, let's get Schwifty".
• "french military victories" (then clicking "I'm feeling lucky") shows the no result page and shows "Did you mean: french military defeats", referencing to the French's surrender in World War II.
  • This has been discontinued and changed to redirect to "Military history of France".

Knowledge Graph

Further information: Knowledge Graph

A Google web search for:

• "axolotl" or "lake xochimilco" shows a yellow axolotl which when clicked, will show a doodle celebrating Lake Xochimilco.
• "bletchley park" shows the name of the attraction being decoded in the Knowledge Graph.
• "bts" shows a purple heart with a microphone inside it, which when clicked will make purple balloons fly along with heart-shaped ones. When any of the heart-shaped balloons are clicked, a message from one of the members of BTS will show up along with that respective member saying "I purple you." and a different colored microphone for each one; sky blue for RM, pink for Jin, black for Suga, silver for J-Hope, gold for Jimin, green for V, and violet for Jungkook.
• "bubble tea" shows a cup filled with bubble tea bouncing left to right, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating bubble tea.
• "cat" will show a button with a paw print on it. Clicking it will cause cat arms to appear and leave paw prints wherever clicked, with meowing sound effects.
• "cherry blossom" or "sakura" will show a pink flower, which when clicked will show petals falling down.
• "Clara Rockmore" or just "rockmore" shows Clara Rockmore in the knowledge graph, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating her 105th birthday.
• "doctor who" will show a 3-Dimensional TARDIS spinning in the knowledge graph which when clicked, will show a doodle of Doctor Who. Further, clicking on the play symbol within the doodle will cause a Dalek to steal the word Google. Then, the Doctor can be clicked on, starting a small game.
• "earth day" will show a bee flying across Earth, which when clicked will start a doodle that Google made in 2020 to celebrate Earth Day's 50th anniversary.
• "fresh prince of bel-air", in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the TV show's first airing in 1990, displayed a replica of the "FRESH" license plate in the Knowledge Graph. Clicking on the license plate caused a taxi to move by the screen, and the search results to acquire a 90s theme with various references to and jokes in reference to people and places across the TV show via audio clips and animations. Clicking the bar at the top of the page/the "freeeeeeeeeeesh" at the bottom would cause one of the characters to scream as they fell down the screen, and then the page would flip back to the original results and design.
• "gotham city", "batman", or "bruce wayne" will show the Bat-Signal next to the results. Tapping or clicking on the bat-signal shows a stormy night background on the search results page, along with the glowing bat signal overlayed on top. After a few seconds, one will hear a grappling sound before they see the shadow of Batman swinging across the screen. This in celebration of the release of The Batman. This easter egg was only available for a limited time.
• "hip hop" shows a bouncing radio in the knowledge graph, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating the 44th anniversary of hip hop.
• "holi" shows a picture of bowls of colored powder in the Knowledge Graph which, when clicked, will simulate throwing a gob of powder at the page where clicked. Further clicks on the page will simulate further gobs of colored powder being thrown to that point. A raindrop icon appears which, when clicked, will cause the page to be washed clean of colored powder. Also note that Goo...gle in the end of the page will show bowls of colored powder instead of letter o's.
• google searches for various instruments, such as "Drums", "Saxophone", and "Triangle" will show their respected sounds in the knowledge graph.
• "juneteenth" will show a button, clicking on it will display an animation at the bottom and also raining red, black and green confetti.
• "jerry lawson" will show an 8-bit sprite of Jerry walking forwards, which when clicked will start a doodle that Google made on 2022 to celebrate Jerry's 82nd birthday, which the 8-bit sprite was from, but not used.
• "johann sebastian bach , A picture next to "Johann Sebastian Bach" appears. When you click it, next picture again appears. Clicked, showing an small tutorial, how to do music compositions. Then you can arrange notes. Then AI will harmonize it with 306 Bach's songs, after clicking the "Harmonize" button and makes of it composition. This is an Doodle from March 21 2019, and it's a first Doodle powered by AI.
• "Katamari, We Love Katamari or "Katamari Damacy", A ball next to the word "Katamari" in the knowledge panel appears. When clicked one can play Katamari with the page elements.
• "loteria" shows two cards one with a heart & the other with the Google G, which when clicked will show a doodle about lotería.
• "legally blonde" shows a pink purse next to the Knowledge Graph, which when clicked, has protagonist Elle Woods' pet chihuahua Bruiser jump out of the purse and walk to a pink salon chair which dresses him in his "signature sweater". He then walks back and jumps into the purse, with Elle saying, "Hi, I'm Elle Woods, and this is Bruiser Woods, and we're both Gemini vegetarians." Once the animation is complete, the color of the links on the page change from their usual blue to pink to match Elle's "signature look".
• "mars 2020", "perseverance rover", or "ingenuity" will show the Ingenuity helicopter that when clicked, flies around the screen.
• "newton" or "Isaac Newton" will show a button with an apple tree. If one clicks it, an apple will fall from the top of the screen.
• "new year's eve" or ''new year's day'', New Year's Eve 2020, showed a cannon next to the Knowledge Graph which once clicked, made confetti explode.
• "panipuri" will show three types of panipuris in the knowledge graph, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating panipuri.
• "petanque" shows a pear holding a ball, which, when clicked, will show a doodle celebrating Pétanque.
• "pluto planet" describes Pluto as "Our favorite dwarf planet since 2006" in the Knowledge Graph.
• Searching for "popcorn" shows an image of popcorn, which when clicked leads to a doodle celebrating popcorn.
• "scoville" shows three red peppers with faces on them, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating Wilbur Scoville's 151st birthday.
• "sonic the hedgehog game", "green hill zone" and ''sonic'' will give a Knowledge Graph with Sonic waiting. Clicking or tapping Sonic will make him spin; if clicked or tapped 25 times, Sonic will transform into Super Sonic.
• "splatoon", "splatoon 2", or "splatoon 3" will display colorful splat blobs in the Knowledge Graph. Clicking on it allows one to splat blobs of ink on the screen in the colors of Google's logo. Some splats have eyes in them, or shaped like squids and octopuses.
• "super mario brothers" shows a Knowledge Graph for Super Mario Bros. that contains a flashing "?" block which generates a coin and 200 points when clicked. After 100 coins are collected, the "1UP" sound plays. This was also added when one searches for the Super Mario Bros. Movie near the film's theatrical release.
• "thanos" and "infinity gauntlet" displayed a Knowledge Graph with the Infinity Gauntlet on it. Clicking it will cause its fingers to snap, disintegrating half of the links and images on the page, as well as counting down the number of results to half. This is a reference to the 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War, in which the character Thanos destroyed half of all life in the universe with the Gauntlet on his hand by snapping his fingers. It was added in celebration of its sequel, Avengers: Endgame. Clicking the gauntlet again restores the previously disintegrated results' content. As of 2020, that option is no longer available.
• "westminster dog show" or "puppy", in celebration of the 2022 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show which took place over a five-day period from June 18 to June 22, will show a purple button with the silhouette of a paw print at the top of the search results. An animation of a dog's paw pressing the button will play as the page goes idle. Clicking on the button will cause the button to disappear, and a dog will bark as it presses down on the page and leaves a paw print in its place. Clicking anywhere else on the page will cause more dogs to bark as they leave their paw prints on the results page. Clicking on the "X" at the bottom will cause a water animation/effect to play with the sounds of a sink as the paw print(s) are washed off of the search results.
  • Searching "Best in Show", a film about a similar dog show, activates this Easter egg as well.
• "wizard of oz" will display a pair of ruby slippers in the Knowledge Graph. Clicking on them will cause the page to spin in a tornado-like effect while an audio file of Judy Garland saying "there's no place like home" is heard. After the effect finishes, the page is seen in a sepia tone only. If the tornado is clicked, an audio file from the movie when the tornado hits plays, the page spins again and returns to color. As of late 2020, this is no longer available.

For the 25th anniversary of the TV series Friends, Google embedded Easter eggs for Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, Monica Geller, Ross Geller, Rachel Green and Joey Tribbiani in their respective Knowledge Graphs. Chandler's Easter egg was temporarily removed, following the death of actor Matthew Perry on October 28, 2023, before being restored sometime in mid-November.

Searching up any of the 12 zodiacs on Google will result in a button on the bottom of the screen that when clicked will show things related to the zodiac searched up.

Embedded tools

A Google web search for:

Further information: Google Search § Special interactive features

• "breathing exercise" will have a 60-second breathing exercise.
• "bubble level" on a mobile device will have an interactive spirit level. However, this is not supported on other devices.
• "christmas" will cause a wrapped present to fall from the top of the screen into the webpage embedded. Clicking on this will take the user to Google Santa Tracker.
• "color picker" will provide a color picker and a conversion between RGB and hexadecimal color values. Selecting "Show color values" will also show conversions to the CMYK, HSL and HSV color models.
• "earth day quiz" will pull up an Earth Day quiz to see what animal one is.
• "flip a coin" will flip a coin: heads or tails.
• "fun facts" or "i'm feeling curious" will show a fun fact. Once a search result has been given, clicking on "Ask another question" will show another question. It will show a short fact in about 1-3 sentences and a link to the website where the fact was found within a featured box at the top of the search results.
• "google doodles" will result in showing a random playable Google Doodle and also show an archive of other playable Doodles.
• "google logo history" results in a slideshow of the changes to the Google logo, starting with the logo used today and ending with one of the first logos from 1998.
• "google tuner" will provide an instrument tuner that, via an authorised microphone, will listen to one playing an instrument and with a GUI, will show how to bring the instrument in tune.
• "memory game" will pull up a memory game that one can play to test your memory.
• "metronome" will have a metronome that can be adjusted from 40 to 218 BPM.
• "minesweeper" will result in a "Minesweeper" card. By selecting Play, one can play Minesweeper, with 3 difficulties, being Easy (10 by 8 grid with 10 mines), Medium (18 by 14 grid with 40 mines), and Hard (24 by 20 grid with 99 mines).
• "pac-man", "google pacman", or "play pacman" will show the Pac-Man related interactive Google Doodle from 2010. Clicking Insert Coin twice will enable a second player, Ms. Pac-Man.
• "periodic table" will have an interactive 3d element from the periodic table, clicking the "explore elements" button will navigate to artsexperiments.withgoogle.com
• "play dreidel" or "dreidel" will spin a dreidel, landing on one of four letters of the Hebrew alphabet: נ‎ (Nun), ג‎ (Gimel), ה‎ (He) or ש‎ (Shin).
• "random number generator" or "rng" will generate a random number. The starting range is between 1 and 10, but the maximum and minimum can be adjusted. Changing the maximum or minimum to a number with more than 10 digits will generate a dizzy face emoji 😵. Changing both the maximum and the minimum to 100 will generate a hundred points symbol 💯.
• "roll a die" will roll a six-sided die, and since c. August 2019, four, eight, ten, twelve or twenty-sided dice individually or as multiples in user selected combinations, all with an optional modifier to either add or subtract from the roll total.
• "snake", "play snake", "snake game" and "snake video game" will result in a "Play Snake" card. By selecting Click to Play, one can play the game on both desktop and mobile. By clicking the cog next to the play button, they can customize the game and even change the game mode. This is regularly updated with new features.
• "solitaire" will have a playable game of solitaire. Users can select between two modes: easy and hard.
• "spinner" will have an interactive spinning wheel and a fidget spinner which can be toggled via the switch. For the spinning wheel, a dropdown menu can change the number of numbers on the wheel: from 2 to 20. Whereas for the fidget spinner, users have to mimic a rotating motion in order for the spinner to spin.
• "stopwatch" and "timer" will provide interactive timing methods; the stopwatch counting up and the timer counting down. Both tools are shown for each search term. Variants such as "set a timer for 10 minutes" can be used.
• "tic tac toe" or "terni lapilli" will show a playable game of tic-tac-toe. Users can select to play against the browser at different levels – "easy", "medium" or "hard" (called "impossible") – or against a friend.
• "tip calculator" will show a tip calculator that can help users to tip someone.
• "translate" will show an embedded version of Google Translate tool in the search results, and in advance of Thanksgiving 2020, a turkey language was added to the selection of languages to which translations could be made. An example translation provided by sources for "how's it going" results in "gobble'gobble gobble gobble". All results are "Poultry Verified".
• "what sound does a dog make" will sound out what a dog will make. The word "dog" can be replaced with other animals in the search query.

Google birthday surprise spinner

Searching for "google birthday surprise spinner" will result in a wheel that spins to one of a selection of playable Google Doodles, tools (see above) and games. Whichever is randomly selected may be opened, or the wheel may be spun again. It was added in celebration of Google's 19th birthday.

Calculator

In late 2011, Google added a graphical calculator to search results, using natural language processing to determine that search results might be mathematical in nature. Woven into this feature are several, not entirely academic, results which might be considered Easter eggs.

A Google web search for:

• "baker's dozen" shows the additional result "1 baker's dozen = 13".
• "once in a blue moon" will give the additional result of "once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 × 10⁻⁸ hertz".
• "the answer to [the ultimate question of] life the universe and everything" provides the answer "42" as a result in reference to the Douglas Adams novel series, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". It is believed to be the first Google Easter egg, predating the calculator in which it is now revealed.
• "the number of horns on a unicorn" shows the number "1" on the calculator.
• "what is the loneliest number" shows the number "1" in the calculator.

The result of multiple Easter eggs may be calculated; for example: "the number of horns on a unicorn plus the answer to life the universe and everything" will return "43".

Ahead of Pi Day 2021, Google added an Easter egg game to the calculator tool which tested players' knowledge and memory of Pi.

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Image search

• A Google image search for "atari breakout" or just "breakout" would start a game of Breakout, using the gallery of image results as bricks. Once the bricks were destroyed, a random phrase was automatically searched, the player got an extra ball, and the game restarted. The Easter egg was added in 2013 in celebration of the 37th anniversary of the original Atari game. As of May 2020 the game is no longer embedded on Google's Image Search.

Google Maps and Google Earth

Further information: Google Maps and Google Earth

• Visiting "Salford Lads' Club" with 3D buildings activated will show Morrissey of The Smiths at the entrance. The club was featured in the cover art of the Smiths' album The Queen Is Dead.
• A 3D buildings Easter egg involves a scene involving a bridge jump from The Blues Brothers, which is recreated in Google Earth at the Tacony–Palmyra Bridge linking New Jersey and Philadelphia.

Directions

• In early test versions of Google Maps, searching for a route between locations separated by expanses of water (for example, Paris and New York City) provided road directions to the coast of the embarkation country (in this case, the west coast of France) before suggesting "Swim the Atlantic Ocean (3,500 miles)" or another ocean for a different distance.
• While Google Maps' walking directions were in beta, requesting them from the start point of "The Shire" or "Rivendell" to the destination of "Mordor", the directions returned the warning: "Use caution – One does not simply walk into Mordor."
• When navigating from Snowdon to the Brecon Beacons, one could choose to travel by dragon, which took 21 minutes.
• When navigating from Urquhart Castle to Fort Augustus, one could choose to travel by the Loch Ness Monster, which took 25 minutes.
• When navigating from Magdalene College to President's Lodge Queens College, one could choose to be punted, which took 45 minutes.
• Searching for public transportation from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace would offer the Royal Carriage option.

Fictional places

• The world of the Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them may be explored with Google Street View. Visit New York City in 1926 as brought to life in the film, as well as the real locations today. Fans can visit MACUSA (Magical Congress of the USA); Steen National Bank, where Newt first meets Jacob Kowalski; the underground speakeasy The Blind Pig; and the magical apartment of Tina and Queenie Goldstein, two of the film's key characters.
• In Street View, on Earls Court Rd, London, United Kingdom, a TARDIS from the science fiction series Doctor Who is on display. Street View allows one to enter the TARDIS where it is "Bigger on the Inside" and explore the set actually used in the show.
• In celebration of the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, users could explore Bruce Wayne's residence and the Batcave.
• Searching for "R'lyeh" would take users to the coordinates of the sunken city. It was listed as a "Place of worship".

Video games

• For April Fools' Day 2015, in certain areas in Google Maps, there was a button which started a game of Pac-Man, controlled by arrow keys and using the roads as paths for Pac-Man to travel along.
  • A similar feature was brought back for April Fools' Day 2017, allowing users to play a version of Ms. Pac-Man upon clicking the icon on the Google Maps webpage or mobile app.
• On Mario Day (March 10) 2018, Google and Nintendo had partnered up to bring Mario into Google Maps mobile app worldwide for a week. A yellow icon with a question mark would show up at the bottom of the directions page, next to the start navigation button. Tapping on the icon would allow one to have Mario and his kart as the navigation arrow. Tapping the icon 100 times would activate a 1-UP sound like in Nintendo's games.

Extraterrestrial

• With the release of Google Earth 5, the Mars feature allowed users to speak to a primitive ELIZA clone on the planet, by searching for "Meliza".
• On July 20, 2005, the 36th anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon, Google debuted a version of Google Maps that included a small segment of the surface of the Moon. It is based entirely on NASA images and includes only a very limited region. Panning causes the map to tile. Zooming to the closest level used to show that the Moon was made of cheese. The map also gives the locations of all Moon landings, and the Google Moon FAQ humorously mentions a connection to the Google Copernicus hoax, which Google claimed to be developing. Supposedly, by 2069, Google Local will support all lunar businesses and addresses.

Pegman

Further information: Google Street View § Pegman

Trigger location or occasion	Pegman's appearance	Reference
Dragged onto Legoland in Carlsbad	Lego minifigure
Dragged onto Sun Valley, Idaho	Skier
Dragged onto the coast of Hawaii, Florida, Bali, or The Galápagos Islands	Mermaid
Dragged onto Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, CA	Wearing a tie-dyed shirt
Dragged near the Arthur Ashe Stadium, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park	Tennis player holding a racket
Dragged near the Kennedy Space Center	Astronaut
Dragged around Groom Lake in Nevada and Area 51	UFO
Dragged around the southern point of Half Moon Island, Antarctica, where Streetview is available	Penguin
Loch Ness	Green Loch Ness Monster wearing a tartan hat
Around some royal residences, such as Buckingham Palace (and the surrounding palaces), The Palace of Holyroodhouse and Hillsborough Castle	A representation of Queen Elizabeth II, "PegMa'am". Following the death of Elizabeth II in 2022, this Easter egg was removed.
For the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Star Wars Stormtrooper or X-wing fighter pilot
For the release of the video game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD for the Wii U	Link holding a Master Sword and a Hylian Shield
Around February 8, the launch day of Google Maps	Dressed as a birthday cake
For Google Street View's 10th birthday & for the user's birthday	As if he is celebrating a birthday, wearing a red and white striped miniature party hat and holding three pastel violet, pink, and blue balloons in his right hand. A similar appearance was used on Street View's 15th anniversary on April 24–25, 2022.
Viewing past Street Views	Emmett "Doc" Brown, one of the protagonists from the Back to the Future universe
Halloween	Rides a broomstick
Valentine's Day	Stands upon a heart
Christmas week	Snowman

Google Translate

Further information: Google Translate

• On November 29, 2010, Reddit user "harrichr" posted details of "how to make Google beatbox for you!" and soon after, Robert Quigley reported the discovery in an article on "geekosystem.com" (now The Mary Sue), stating that he was "Not sure if this falls in the category of Easter Egg or clever manipulation" and that although he had "No idea why", it transpired that using Google Translate to translate nonsense text of all consonants from German to German and clicking Listen would result in machine generated speech that sounded like beatboxing. As time went on, redditors and other interested parties experimented with translation combinations, posting their results on sites including Hacker News where reader "iamdave" is reported to have posted "a pretty comprehensive Google Translate beatboxing guide". Three years later Time magazine published an article indicating that Google had acknowledged the existence of this "feature" with an Easter egg "Beatbox" tooltip when hovering over the "speaker icon" button after setting everything up to the aforementioned specification.
• In January 2018, a Reddit user posted a discovery that when using Google Translate to translate the Funniest Joke in the World ("Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!") from German to English, the result was "[FATAL ERROR]".
• Past August 27, 2023, translating "happy birthday" and pressing enter, will rain Google-colored confetti, on the occasion of Google's 25th birthday.

Google homepage

• Rolling over the I'm Feeling Lucky button causes the button text to spin, landing on a random phrase. Clicking on the button without text in the search bar will serve the corresponding web page.

I'm feeling	Result
Doodley	Random Google Doodle
Artistic	Random Google art project
Hungry	Google search for "restaurants"
Puzzled	"A Google A Day" home page
Trendy	Google Hot Trends
Stellar	Google Earth homepage
Playful	Random interactive Google Doodle
Wonderful	Random "World Wonder" project
Generous	Google "One Today" homepage

Google languages

Google offers interfaces for several different fictional languages. Users can set any of these languages (except pig Latin) as their search settings' preferred language.

Language	URL
Bork	www.google.com/?hl=xx-bork
Elmer Fudd	www.google.com/?hl=xx-elmer
Hacker (Leet)	www.google.com/?hl=xx-hacker
Klingon	www.google.com/?hl=xx-klingon
Pig Latin	www.google.com/?hl=xx-piglatin
Pirate	www.google.com/?hl=xx-pirate

Google subpages

The teapot found at Google's 418 error page

• When Ken Perlin visited Google February 2000, Sergey Brin asked him for a version of an interactive jumping heart character he'd created as a Java applet to be put on the Google site for Valentine's Day. "www.google.com/heart" will redirect to an archived page which is a preservation of the old, but still functional, Google interface, complete with the Valentine's heart and a banner that states "This site is an old friend from Google's past, kept in its original form. Enjoy!"
• "www.google.com/humans.txt" is a simple plain text file serving to remind its readers that Google is created by a large team of humans using many technologies. It asks for interested readers to visit their careers page.
• "www.google.com/killer-robots.txt" was a plain text file in robots.txt format that instructed The Terminator not to kill the company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, but has since been removed.
• "www.google.com/teapot" states, "418. I'm a teapot. The requested entity body is short and stout. Tip me over and pour me out." Clicking on the picture of the teapot or tilting the mobile device will result in an animation of it pouring tea into a teacup. The web page is a reference to the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol.

Android

Further information: Android (operating system)

• Since the version 2.3 (Gingerbread) of Google's Android operating system an Easter egg has been hidden. The Easter egg can be accessed through the "Settings" application, in the "About phone" section, by repeatedly tapping the "Android version" section. The animation is different in every version of the OS.
  • In 2.3 – 2.3.7 (Gingerbread) there is a painting of an Android next to a zombie gingerbread man, surrounded by zombies using cellphones.
  • In 3.0 – 3.2.6 (Honeycomb) there is a blue honeybee. Below it, there is the text "REZZZZZZZ..." as a reference to Tron: Legacy.
  • In 4.0 – 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) there is pixel art of an ice cream sandwich android. Long-pressing it will result in many ice cream sandwich androids flying across the screen, dubbed the "nyan droid" as they are a tribute to Nyan Cat.
  • In 4.1 – 4.3.1 (Jelly Bean) a red jelly bean appears, which if pressed will show its face along with the OS version. If this jelly bean is then long-pressed, an interactive jelly bean mini-game will appear. This is where one can fling the jelly beans around. In 4.2 and above, another minor Easter egg is included: going to System > About Phone and continuously tapping the Build number section results in a notification stating "You are now a developer!", which enables the Developer Options screen.
  • In 4.4 (KitKat) a rotating letter "K" appears, which if continually tapped turns into the text "Android" in the styling of a KitKat logo. If the Android logo is then long-pressed or twisted with two fingers a tile interface, known as "a daydream" called "Dessert Case", loads with icons from all previous versions of Android. It appears to be a mock of the Windows Phone interface.
  • In 5.x (Lollipop) and 6.x (Marshmallow), a colored circle appears (or a circle with a stylized M inside in Marshmallow). If continuously tapped, it will turn into a lollipop with the text lollipop inside (or the M changes into a marshmallow in 6.x). Tapping the circle changes the color. When long-pressed, a game of Flappy Bird starts with the Android mascot instead. In Marshmallow, tapping the plus sign adds extra players (up to five), which can be controlled by the user or other players.
  • In 7.0 (Nougat), an "N" appears, which will enable another Easter egg if tapped. This Easter egg, titled "Android Neko" as a reference to the cat collecting mobile game Neko Atsume, can be accessed from the Quick Settings menu, and allows one to create virtual treats, which will eventually attract kittens. The kittens can be viewed in a gallery-style screen. Additionally, long-pressing on the aforementioned "N" repeatedly will alternate between displaying the no symbol and the cat face emojis, respectively toggling the Easter egg on and off. "No" and "cat" is a mondegreen for "nougat".
  • In 8.0 (Oreo), instead of the normal way of going to the Easter egg, heading to System > About Phone and tapping on the Android version repeatedly will launch the Easter egg. An orange circle appears, representing an "O" for Oreo. Long pressing on the center will open a blue screen representing a sea with an octopus floating around. The "O" in octopus represents Oreo while the eight legs on the octopus represent the version (8.0). The octopus can be moved by dragging the head around.
  • In 9.0 (Pie), the Easter egg is found by going to System > About Phone > Android version and then tapping three times on the Android version on the next screen. A white, extended "P" will then appear, usually with concentric colored circles disappearing into the "P". Each time the Easter egg is invoked, it displays different colors. The animation can be pinched to zoom.
    • On Google Pixel phones (that run 9.0 Pie), tapping the "P" icon several times will reveal a drawing app.
  • In 10.0, the text "android 10" will appear, where each of the texts "android", "1", and "0" can be moved and rotated. Rotating "1" and merging with the digit "0" will result in the "android Q" text. In this state, tapping the "Q" several times will reveal a Nonogram game, where the resulting pictures are various icons of Android.
  • In 11.0, a dial will show up. It can only go up to 10. If a user turn it to the max three times, it will go up to 11. After this is done, a virtual cat Easter egg is unlocked. This one is also called "Android Neko", much like the Easter egg in Nougat releases.
  • In 12.0 and 13.0, a clock will show up. Setting it to the 12 o'clock position (or setting it to the 13 o'clock position in 13.0) will show many circles with the colors of Material You, resembling an Ishihara color test plate. This Easter egg may trigger Trypophobia in some users, as the spots are close together. After opening the Easter egg, a widget will be added to the list of available widget which, when tapped on, shows all the colours in the Material You colour palette and tapping on one will open the share menu with details about the colour. In 13.0, If one clicks on many circles, they will see different emojis.
  • In 14.0, the "Upside Down Cake" logo will pop up. If held long enough, along with the vibrations, a space-based game will appear. One can pilot a ship and discover 6 planets in a system.
• "Spells" may be "cast" on an Android phone by saying "Ok Google" followed by "Lumos" or "Nox" to turn the flashlight on and off, or "Silencio" to silence the ringer and notifications.

Android applications

• In the Google Play Games app, if the player swipes the Konami Code, a box will appear with three buttons – a B, an A and an ►. Pressing B then A then ► unlocks a secret achievement called "All your game are belong to us", a reference to the well known "All your base are belong to us" phrase.
• In the Google Phone (Dialer) app, inputting the "Emergency Number" "0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", advertised to replace "999" in The IT Crowd's season 1 episode "Calamity Jen", will cause the phone to vibrate and the call button to flash blue and red. The feature is supported to work on stock Android Marshmallow and Android Nougat, and is still present on Oreo (8.1) devices.
• In Google+, if the device is shaken while viewing a photo, snow will fall; if the device is shaken again it will save an animated GIF of the image with falling snow to the pictures directory. Note that Google+ no longer exists, as it has been replaced with a now defunct social app called Google Currents in 2019 after its shutdown.
• Searching for "let's go caroling" or "let's go carolling" on Google Now will result in an extra card which displays a list of Christmas carols. The phone will play the music and show the words if one of them is selected.
• On YouTube Creator Studio, swiping down the screen repeatedly will show a cat at the top of the screen.
• Entering the tabview on the Google Chrome app and swiping up on a tab five times will cause the tab to do a backflip.
• Opening more than 99 tabs in the Google Chrome app will result in ":D" shown instead of the number of opened tabs. In incognito tab it will show ";)".
• Tapping on the dinosaur, which is shown if the Google Chrome app is not able to connect to internet, will start Dinosaur Game.

Gallery

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  Ice Cream Sandwich
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  Jelly Bean
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  Pie
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  Queen Cake

YouTube

The Fidget Spinner that replaces the buffering icon

Further information: YouTube

• On YouTube for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and on YouTube TV, holding rewind (left on a gamepad thumbstick, left ← or J on a keyboard) for a few seconds while at the beginning of a video, will cause an animated image of a small dog to run across the video's progress bar. This easter egg is no longer available.
• On a video published by Numberphile on June 22, 2012, titled "Why do YouTube views freeze at 301?", the view count is intentionally frozen at 301, referencing a bug that prevented the view counter from refreshing beyond 301 views.
• Adding "&wadsworth=1" to a video URL would apply "Wadsworth's constant", skipping the first third of the video.
• While viewing any video, typing "awesome" makes the progress bar and other player elements flash multicolored. Typing "awesome" again stops it.
• YouTube's robots.txt file at "www.youtube.com/robots.txt" states that it was "Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after the robotic uprising of the mid 1990s which wiped out all humans." This is an ostensible reference to the song "Robots" by Flight of the Conchords.
• On December 12, 2015, in celebration of the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the progress bar was changed in order to look like a Lightsaber. By signing up to a specially created page, users were able to follow the Light Side (which would change the progress bar to blue) or the Dark Side (which would change the progress bar to red). Account users had the option to return the effect to normal. Google disabled it for all users, February 1, 2016.
• A Snake game could be activated in the Adobe Flash player by pressing a combination of arrow keys while videos were paused or playing. Once started, the snake could be controlled by further use of the arrow keys, directing it to "gobble up dots" to increase its size. If the snake hit the edges of the video window, the game ended. The feature no longer works with the HTML video player.
• When watching a video with "fidget spinner" in the title, the buffering icon would change into a spinning fidget spinner. This easter egg no longer works.
• In 2011, the Nyan Cat video on YouTube was updated to show a custom progress bar with an animated Nyan Cat and a rainbow trail. The custom progress bar was later removed at an unknown date.
• In December 2011, a button was added that would overlay a falling snow effect over most YouTube videos.
• The title for Adult Swim's Too Many Cooks short on YouTube is displayed in the same font and color as the title cards in the video are.

YouTube search

A YouTube search for:

• "beam me up scotty", a reference to Star Trek, would cause the search results to beam down onto the screen, as in Star Trek.
• "doge meme" changes the font on the search result page to pastel color Comic Sans typical of the Doge meme, but has since been removed
• "do the harlem shake" will cause the Harlem Shake song to play and the results to dance around.
• "technoblade" will cause a prompt to show up under the search bar, which reads: "Did you mean: technoblade never dies" This is in tribute to Technoblade, a popular Minecraft Youtuber who died on June 30, 2022.
• "use the Force luke" causes the results to levitate, as if by the Force mentioned in Star Wars.
• "webdriver torso" will return the results but with a red background and a blue rectangle around some videos. It also says "aqua.flv – Slide 000[0–9]" at the bottom left of the page. This Easter egg is a reference to the Webdriver Torso mystery. Google has confirmed that it is behind the Webdriver Torso mystery; it is one of many test channels used by YouTube to ensure video quality.

Chrome

Further information: Google Chrome

Lonely T-Rex

• If one tries to browse when offline, a message is shown that they are not connected to the Internet. An illustration of the "Lonely T-Rex" dinosaur is shown at the top, which blinks occasionally, designed by Sebastien Gabriel. From September 2014, tapping the dinosaur (in Android or iOS) or pressing space or ↑ (on desktop) launches a browser game known as the Dinosaur Game in which the player controls a running dinosaur by tapping the screen (in Android or iOS) or pressing space, ↑ or ↓ (on desktop) to avoid obstacles, including cacti and, from June 2015, pterodactyls. In 2016, another feature was added to the game. When the player reaches 700 points the game begins to switch between day (white background, black lines and shapes) and night (black background, white lines and shapes). During September 2018, for Google Chrome's 10th birthday, a birthday cake causing the dinosaur to wear a birthday hat when collected was added. Reaching a score of 900 will switch the color scheme back to day, and the switch back and forth will occur at further subsequent milestones. The game is also available at the "chrome://network-error/-106" and "chrome://dino" pages. The game's code is available on the Chromium site.

ChromeOS

Further information: ChromeOS

• In the Camera app, activating caps lock and typing "CRAZYPONY" would open the files app and prompt the user to select a video file. Users could then add filters and take screenshots of the video.
• The keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+⇧ Shift+refresh causes the current window to spin (Barrel Roll).
• After downloading a picture, then deleting it in the files app, but leaving the notification; when clicking on the notification it will say "This file has wandered off somewhere".
• Inputting the Konami Code on a Chromebook Pixel causes the lights on an LED strip on the lid of the computer to blink rapidly.

Other

"PRIDE" Easter Egg in Google Sheets being demonstrated

• Navigating to a 404 page on google.com will result with the title the webpage having a 1 instead of an ! in "Error 404 (Not Found)!!1". This is most likely part of the "!1 Phenomenon".
• Pressing Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Y in the Picasa desktop application will cause a teddy bear to appear on the screen. Note that the Picasa application no longer exists, as it was replaced by Google Photos.
• In Google Glass, tapping Settings → Device info → View licenses, then tapping the touchpad 9 times, will show a Tap Meet Team option. Tapping again will show a photo of the Google Glass development team.
• Any photograph with Christmas lights uploaded to Google+ would have been turned into an animated GIF, showing sparkling lights.
• On the Google Play Store, clicking the search button with a blank search field will search "unicorn".
• In Google's iPhone and iPod touch search application, swiping downwards (past About) repeatedly in the Settings interface brings up a hidden menu item, called Bells and Whistles, allowing customization of colors, sounds and more within the app.
• The model numbers for the first generation Chromecast unit and its power adapter read H2G2-42 and MST3K-US, respectively.
• The password for Google Fi Wireless data only SIM cards is "h2g2", another reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
• In Google Sheets, as to celebrate LGBT pride, typing "PRIDE" in cells A1-E1 with each individual letter in each cell will change the fill color of columns to make a rainbow. As of an unknown date the colors were changed to the colors that were seen in every pride flag.
• On the IOS app of Google, opening the tabs page and scrolling down will open a pinball game.

See also

• elgooG – a mirrored website of Google Search with horizontally flipped search results within which one can play some Google easter eggs which were discontinued.
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage – a hoax study that claimed to have correlated the IQs of 100,000 internet users with which web browsers they used, claiming that users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer had lower IQs than users of other browsers
• List of Easter eggs in Microsoft products
• List of Easter eggs in Tesla products