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Google easter eggs & pranks!!

 
 
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Reply Sun 22 Jun, 2003 12:29 am
Google has a history of messing around for April fools day & such. .

In case you haven't seen them before, here are 2 of my favorite google thingies:

Easter egg: google's easter bunny game

April fools day prank from last year: The technology behind Google's great results: PigeonRank™



Good stuff Laughing

I think there were more. .
 
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Reply Sun 22 Jun, 2003 12:43 am
Well, the Easter Bunny went all starry on me - and, it may be an urban myth, but I believe they tried to teach pigeons to fly little kamikaze bombs - by teaching them to peck to keep a little ship outline centred on crosshairs for food pellet rewards.

I confess, I am glad A2k uses hamsters.
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Reply Sun 22 Jun, 2003 01:03 am
Just one more great way to prove to your friends that you're clinically insane:
From Google's Preferences page you can chose which language Google's messages are displayed in. I've been using Elmer Fudd as my language for a while now. Laughing Some other weird ones you can choose are 'Bork, bork, bork!', 'Hacker', 'Klingon' and 'Pig Latin'.
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Reply Sun 22 Jun, 2003 01:12 am
Those Are cute Monger. I won the bunny game :-D
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Post: # 250,225
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Reply Sun 22 Jun, 2003 03:51 pm
OY!
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Reply Wed 25 Jun, 2003 12:05 am
Check this out...vera cool. .

elgooG
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Reply Wed 25 Jun, 2003 01:40 am
!loL
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Reply Wed 25 Jun, 2003 05:31 am
Go to google some time, and type in "French Military Victories," then hit "I'm feeling lucky . . . "
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Reply Wed 25 Jun, 2003 09:44 am
The same guy that did the french military victories google bomb also did one to disparage peace protesters. I forget his name but he is a right wing Canadian fella.
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Reply Fri 4 Jul, 2003 07:06 am
frolic posted the following over here:

frolic wrote:
Go to

http://www.google.com

search for "weapons of mass destruction"

And choose the "i'm feeling lucky"button

Laughing
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Reply Fri 4 Jul, 2003 06:42 pm
wow wish I had something to add here. These are great.
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Post: # 267,897
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Reply Sat 5 Jul, 2003 11:38 pm
Google MentalPlex (another past April Fools day gag):

http://www.google.com/mentalplex/foolanim.gif
Instructions:
  • Remove hat and glasses.
  • Peer into MentalPlex circle. DO NOT MOVE YOUR HEAD.
  • Project mental image of what you want to find.
  • Click or visualize clicking within the MentalPlex circle.
See Google's FAQ and illustrations for correct usage.

...Go ahead and click the image!
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Reply Sun 6 Jul, 2003 09:13 am
Here're the keywords to use to bring up the google bomb 'bout peace protestors that craven mentioned:

Type "anti-war peace protesters", then click I'm Feeling Lucky.



Quote:
"This Parody is not sponsored or endorsed by Google"
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Reply Sun 26 Oct, 2003 06:48 am
Another google easter egg:

type the following in google and hit search:

answer to life the universe and everything
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Reply Sun 26 Oct, 2003 06:55 am
This doesn't work with other languages than English or google.com, however (until now).
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Reply Mon 8 Dec, 2003 03:15 pm
Wanna list google bombs here too?

Here's a new one:

"miserable failure" has been Google bombed to point to Bush's biography.
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Reply Tue 16 Dec, 2003 03:56 pm
Oil Monger
Ok, i have decided to start a google bomb on dick cheney. For those of you who dont know, a google bomb is a way of exploiting how google works to make a certain website come up when a phrase is searched for.

for example, type in miserable failure at google and look at the firt result. it's bushes official .gov bio. pretty amusing. i want to do the same with cheney.

the trick is having a huge number of web sites with a link to the desired site using the phrase. for cheney, i think "oil monger" will be apropriate.

if any of you have a website, dislike cheney, and like to support a good prank that could possibly get into the news (the bush google bomb did), please put this code somewhere in your site/weblog/whatever

<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident">"oil monger"</a>

then if you would, add your site to google by going here

http://www.google.com/addurl.html

any help is appreciated, TELL YOUR FRIENDS
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Reply Tue 16 Dec, 2003 04:15 pm
GoogleBomber,

A) This site eliminates pagerank so it won't help a GoogleBomb to post a link here.

B) I have done some fun Google Bombs. If you want to start a project let me know. I don't have the time but I can help.
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2004 04:02 pm
This one's not a Google Easter egg either, but this is one of their weird domains that I'm starting to see in logs for sites I administer.

www.466453.com

Edit: I just realized what it is, it's "google" on a phone.
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Reply Sat 17 Jan, 2004 04:57 pm
These are funny, I'll try to post some stuff later.
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