Google's latest Easter egg

STEPS:

 

First-> Go to Google

Second-> Type “Do a Barrel Roll”

Third-> Wait & Watch ..

 

Google's "Do a Barrel Roll" OR “Z or R twice” search trick went viral on Thursday after bored users tweeted about the cool trick to their friends. The barrel roll trick isn't the only Easter egg Google's hidden in its site.

 

Here are seven other Google tricks.

 

Be warned that they only work if your turn off the "instant search" feature.

 

Gravity. Type in "Google gravity" in the search bar, hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button and watch your screen succumb to gravity.

 

Askew.  Simply type in the word "askew" in the search bar.

 

Epic. Make Google's font size bigger. Type Epic Google in the search bar and look at the epic-ness.

 

Weenie. Epic Google's smaller cousin. Type Weenie Google and feel sorry for the little guy.

 

Flight Simulator. Google incorporated this popular Easter egg as a permanent feature in Google Earth. Click on Tools > Enter Flight Simulator, and you're off and zooming around the world.

 

Dragon. In Google Docs, open any spreadsheet and if you press Shift+F12, a message will pop up announcing "Dragon slain! Congratulations, you've slain the dragon!"

 

 

 

Do a barrel roll: Google's best Easter eggs

It takes care of more than 1billion searches worldwide every day but Google still finds time to make our lives more fun. In a week when its latest hidden Easter egg has been the talk of the internet, Metro takes a look at other examples of Google quirkiness that will give you a smile at your computer screen.

Since its humble beginnings as a college research project 15 years ago, Google has always done its best to show its lighter side.

Guess the Google Doodle of the day is a regular bit of fun. They first appeared in 1998, as an out-of-office message honouring the Burning Man Festival in Nevada, which Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had gone off to attend.

The Google Doodles come thick and fast these days but tech-savvy users get a bigger kick out of the search engine’s more hidden treats.

An ‘Easter egg’ came along recently that turned Google upside down – type ‘do a barrel roll’ into the search bar and the results page will turn through 360 degrees. Pointless? Of course. Flipping good fun for a few seconds in your otherwise dour day stuck in front of a computer? Almost definitely.

The phrase quickly proved it was popular by – what else? – becoming a trend on Twitter, while perceptive gamers of a certain age were quick to point out its origins.

The phrase is an established internet meme from Nintendo video game Star Fox 64, released in 1997, where the character Peppy Hare orders you to ‘do a barrel roll!’ by hitting the Z or R buttons on the joypad twice.

Someone at Google is obviously a fan of the flying game – typing ‘Z or R twice’ also tips Google around in a circle on your screen. The barrel roll is a showcase for the CSS3 (Cascading Style Sheets 3), the latest CSS version used to design web pages.

In the past, Google has done everything from put ninjas in its Reader and spam recipes in its Gmail spam folders in order to enhance users’ experience. ‘Easter eggs are simply little fun surprises to be discovered by our users to make their Google experiences even more fun and put a smile on their face,’ a spokesman said.

Two of Google’s most innovative search projects were carried out by Ricardo Cabello, also known as Mr.doob. Cabello, 29, from Barcelona, is a wizard in HTML5 – the latest language of the web – which Google is keen to experiment with through its Chrome web browser.

Mr.doob is the developer behind Google Gravity – type the phrase into the search engine and watch as everything tumbles to the bottom of the screen. He was also commissioned to produce Google Sphere based on his own idea. It is an image search where Google’s home page becomes a moving ball of picture-based info.

Mr.doob said code used in the Google Sphere project was later used to power indie band Arcade Fire’s multimedia video.

Asked why Google did quirky experiments like this, he replied: ‘I don’t think it’s important. But it’s always good to have a sense of humour.’

If you’re trying a few of these out over your lunch break, best hope your boss has one, too.