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The Top 25 Fun Google TricksMaybe to help dispel the wacky notion that geeks are boring, or

maybe to prove that Search isn’t all work and no play and Sergei

and Larry are by no means dull boys, Google every-once-in-a-

Google-Moon leavens their spam-fighting and user experience-

enhancing with some honest-to-goodness, good clean Fun

Google Tricks.

You probably know a few of these memes already — passed

around the intarwebz ad infinitum as they often are — those quirky

little tricks and pranks you never thought you’d see from such a

serious search engine. Occasionally, we searchers stumble

upon some quietly placed “Google Easter Egg,” or sometimes

Google’s PR peeps publicize some brand spanking new Fun

Google trick that spices up the user experience as much as it

enhances it. Whichever it is, these Google Tricks are fun darnit,

so have fun with them.

Meme junkies and time-wasters that we are here at Google Tricks, we’ve had our fair share of good times. And because we’re not

greedy, and because we like to organize as a way to procrastinate, we’ve done the heavy lifting of gathering what we consider to be

the Top 25 Fun Google tricks right here in one glorious and easy-to-read location on this page. If you like the cut of our jib, perhaps

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1. Google Gravity

Quite simply, this is Earth-bound physics “infused” into Google’s

interface: with “gravity,” the visual elements you commonly find on the

interface, such as the search bar, the “I’m feeing lucky” button, and

everything else fall down like a stack of bricks on the bottom of the

browser. You can even “pick up” and “throw” the search results at the

“walls” or just simply mess with them. This is no longer implemented on

Google, but you can still see how it worked through the link below.

2. Let me Google that for you

LMGTFY or Let Me Google That for You is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek service made for those of us who are too lazy to use

Google. Upon entering a search query, instead of results, you get a link that you can then mail to your lazy recipient.

Clicking on the link launches the actual search: thus, in this perigrinatory manner, you have Googled it for them. All they have to do

is click the link. A beautiful example of technology making things more complicated for us.

3. Google Chuck Norris

There was a time when the internet raged with all imaginable Chuck Norris jokes. So naturally, Google itself dipped its hand in the

meme with the Chuck Norris Google Trick. Search “Chuck Norris,” and Google returns a familiar Chuck Norris joke: “Google won’t

search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don’t find Chuck Norris, he finds you.”

4. God on Google Earth

Sometime in 2010, people around the world went “God crazy” when Google Earth supposedly had taken a “snapshot” of “divine

beings” while crossing a mountain zone in Switzerland. There’s no definite answer, of course, but the buzz it created was testament

to how the entire online community could get excited over a blurry photo, like they do with pictures of cats.

5. Google Pac-man

A treasure-trove of fun Google tricks won’t be complete without mentioning Google’s Pac-Man doodle. On May 22, 2010, the 30th

anniversary of the classic game, people around the world woke up to a search engine sporting an actually playable mini-version of

Pac-Man. And naturally, hundreds of millions of people spent hours playing the game, basically slowing down productivity to a halt.

6. Google Mirror

This fun Google trick simply displays a mirror image of everything you might see when doing a search on Google.

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7. Google Hacker

Those who are familiar with the so-called language of hackers (1337

5p3@k or “leet speak”) may love using this Google trick to amuse haxor

pals or confound the squares. Sure, the trick isn’t much trickier than

swapping letters for moderately analogous numbers or ASCII characters

— e.g. “G” becomes “6″, “E” becomes “3″, “N” becomes “||”, etc — But it’s

still fun symbol-play, and still somehow feels like a secret language,

despite that we all now w00t every time we are overcome with joy.

8. Google Barrel Roll

A Fun Google trick that is still accessible today, the barrel roll means exactly as it says: make Google do a barrel roll. Simply type

“Do a barrel roll” into the search bar and Google dutifully obeys. Warning: This Especially Fun Google Trick is known to make

babies cry and grown men squeal with delight.

9. Google Rainbow

Like a handful of the other Fun Google Tricks included in this list, this third-party website that has no official affiliation with Google

but only offers its two cents in letting people experience the search engine in a delightful way. If you like colors, this site delivers it—

although it may remind you more of the internet circa early-1990s, with all its animated GIFs.

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10. Google Sphere

Google Sphere turns every little element you commonly see on Google’s homepage into a swirling “sphere.” It’s pretty cool, but it’s

no longer implemented on Google. To see how it once worked, just visit the link below.

11. Google Spam

Probably not an actual Google trick but more a manifestation of how Google offers users related information. In the folders in your

Gmail account, you usually see a one-line text advertisement from Adsense. But in the Spam folder, what you’ll see is a real Spam

recipe—yes, it’s a recipe for something you can actually eat.

12. Google Tilt or Askew

Typing the word “tilt” or “askew” on Google (specifically if you’re using the

Chrome or Safari browser) commands the search engine to “tilt” the

whole screen slightly to the right.

13. Dragon Slayer

Those who use Google Docs will find this mildly amusing. If you create or

open any spreadsheet, pressing Shift+F12 pops up a message that says:

“Dragon slain! Congratulations, you’ve slain the dragon! ]B=8}”.

14. Google Ninja

Who doesn’t love ninjas? Google definitely does. If you’re using your

Google Reader feed, press the keys “up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A” and a ninja (or a couple of them) appear!

15. All the Google Doodles

Over the years, Google has released several of its “doodles”—a temporary re-design of the Google logo made as a tribute to a

historical event or the birthday of someone who has changed the world for the better. Through the link below, you’ll find all of the

Google Doodles, not only the American versions.

16. Recursion

Type “recursion” into the Google search bar and Google in return asks, rather recursively: “Did you mean recursion?”

17. Google’s Nessie

Use the beach theme with your iGoogle homepage, then very patiently sit there and wait until the clock strikes 3:14 AM. Or you can

just more the clock forward and see the monster” that comes out. If you actually waited several hours until 3:14 AM, finally seeing

the monster might not totally amuse you.

18. Flight Simulator

What started as an Easter egg became so well-loved that Google eventually turned it into a regular feature of Google Earth. Just

click Tools > Enter Flight Simulator, and you’re off to make a round-the-world tour. It would have been more awesome if Google

Earth also has a “rocket launcher” feature with unlimited ammo to go with it, but maybe next time.

19. Google MentalPlex

One of the earliest (if not, the earliest) Google April Fool’s joke (this one surfaced in 2000) is the Google MentalPlex. Instead of

typing their queries into the search bar, unwitting users were “invited” to just “think” their questions while gazing intently into the

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MentalPlex circle (apparently to allow Google enough time to “read” your brain signals and transform them into actual search

engine queries), then click into the circle to see the results. Even Google’s CEO and co-founder Larry Page called MentalPlex “a

quantum leap in finding what you are looking for on the Internet. Typing in queries is so 1999.” It was fun. Especially if you

remember that this was the early days of Google, long before the billion-dollar behemoth called Adsense and what-have-you.

20. Google Anagram

Step 1: Type “anagram” into the Google search bar. Step 2: Google asks if you in fact mean “nag a ram.” Step 3: Proceed to LOL.

21. The disappearing “OO”

This is not really a Google fun trick per se, but you can wow your clueless friend with this little “magic.” Click anywhere on the white

space of the Dark Arts page (URL in linked title above), then pretend to rub your two fingers on the two OO’s on the Google logo for

2 to 3 seconds, and the O’s will vanish. To bring it back, do the same thing: Click anywhere again and the OO’s will reappear, after

which you will be redirected to the real Google.

22. Annoying Google

The “Annoying Google” trick is not really annoying under normal circumstances. Even if you’re in a hurry, Annoying Google’s way of

messing up the words as you type them (randomly changing from upper-case to lower-case) is not really annoying. But if you want

to see this in action and determine for yourself if it’s really annoying or simply mildly amusing, visit the link below.

23. Epic Google

Epic Google is Google on steroids — not the enhanced performance however, just the obscene bulk. Once the page loads, the

logo, search bar, “Search” and “I’m Feeling Excessive” buttons, all swell until they either float off the page or you type a search and

get the heck outta there.

24. Weenie Google

Weenie Google is the flip side of Epic Google. Once the page loads, the logo, search bar, “Search” and “I’m Feeling Inadequate”

buttons,immediately begin to shrink to inscrutable and barely-usable sizes. Is fun, no?

25. Chicken Rolling

“Rick-rolling” is a popular prank that involves redirecting the unwitting user to a video of music artist Rick Astley singing one of his

hit songs (most often “Never Gonna Give You Up”). Chicken-rolling, on the other hand, is like Rick-rolling, but with one dancing man

eating fried chicken legs. To subject your unwitting friend to this prank, type the code “2204355” then click “I’m feeling lucky.” See

what happens.

Whew. What a lot of fun that list provides.

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Comments (28)Comments (28)

Google Easter EggsGoogle Easter EggsApril 9, 2012 at 7:27 pm | #

Like 421

Google Gravity:

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Engine Fun

The Top 10 Funny

Google Tricks Of

2012

Google Sphere

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Perspective On

Search Results

The Top Ten

Google Doodles

Of All Time

Google Mirror:

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L’oeil?

Epic Google:

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Real words! How rare and welcome!

So why are they called called Google Easter Eggs? Do they come out on Easter, or because they’re nice surprises we find

they’ve quietly hidden?

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Christoph ArlingtonChristoph ArlingtonApril 11, 2012 at 3:20 pm | #

Fair question Roose. Thanks for asking it.

They’re called Google Easter Eggs because Google hides them discreetly (as opposed to the Google Tricks they

launch loudly and proudly).

So when they’re found it feels a little like Easter. Or Christmas, I suppose. Maybe they ought to be called Google

Christmas Presents too, just to make things more confusing. Isn’t that Google’s stated mission anyway, to make the

web more confusing?

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Tony James ScottTony James ScottJune 2, 2012 at 1:35 am | #

Where are the links?

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Christoph ArlingtonChristoph ArlingtonJune 3, 2012 at 5:04 pm | #

Good question Scott. Guess it would help to make it easy to see examples of these tricks at work if I posted links. Will

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get on that ASAP.

-Christoph

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DushyantDushyantJune 22, 2012 at 9:32 pm | #

Hi Christoph, Please post the links as well, M dying to see all these tricks. Thank you.

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JasperJasperJuly 7, 2012 at 7:28 am | #

Some of them don’t have links.

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challan cruzchallan cruzJuly 12, 2012 at 6:45 pm | #

u suck chris suck dick

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PRETTIER THAN YOUPRETTIER THAN YOUJuly 19, 2012 at 4:32 pm | #

when i go togoogle and i try to put the chicken roll it doesnt let me click im feeling lucky

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Christoph ArlingtonChristoph Arlington

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August 3, 2012 at 3:22 pm | #

Two things: If it’s not letting you click “I’m feeling Lucky”, it’s probably because you have “Instant Predictions” turned on

in your search settings. Turn that off to be allowed to actually click a button before you see the search results.

The other thing is, rather than type “chicken roll” type “2204355″ and then click “I’m Feeling Lucky.” That’s how the

chicken roll trick works.

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MiguelMiguelJuly 28, 2012 at 10:23 am | #

What about funny-google.com ?

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Christoph ArlingtonChristoph ArlingtonAugust 3, 2012 at 3:17 pm | #

Yeah! Funny-google.com too. Thanks Miguel!

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kurt richardskurt richardsAugust 1, 2012 at 5:33 am | #

also if you type zerg rush it comes up with the zerg rush game and the things will try to eat everything.

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Christoph ArlingtonChristoph ArlingtonAugust 3, 2012 at 3:14 pm | #

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Nice. Thanks Kurt!

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sainathsainathDecember 26, 2012 at 4:37 am | #

nice trick dude

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IzzyIzzyAugust 7, 2012 at 12:02 pm | #

How do u get To go on the google tricks to show ur friends

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rayhanrayhanSeptember 16, 2012 at 6:39 am | #

http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/ http://elgoog.im/terminal/ open that website! that’s cool

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Christoph ArlingtonChristoph ArlingtonNovember 7, 2012 at 6:32 pm | #

Agreed Rayhan. Google Terminal is awesome. I love the concept. Whoever thought that one up is brilliant! That is a

totally fun google trick. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I’m going to have to add it to the tricks canon.

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marielmarielOctober 21, 2012 at 12:00 pm | #

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if you type in ‘zerg rush’ your page will be eaten. It’s very funny!

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PankajPankajNovember 10, 2012 at 1:13 pm | #

that is one exhaustive list..my favorite is the mentalplex! Also check out my list of fun google tricks

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Christoph ArlingtonChristoph ArlingtonNovember 16, 2012 at 1:52 am | #

Thanks for the link Pankaj. You’ve got a nice list of additional tricks there.

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nikhila nandakumarnikhila nandakumarNovember 11, 2012 at 9:35 am | #

thank u for an awsome ‘easter egg’..!!!!

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MatthewMatthewNovember 11, 2012 at 6:09 pm | #

2204355=You got chicken rolled

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your momyour momNovember 12, 2012 at 8:12 pm | #

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this is the awesomest thing ever idk what else to write

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JacobJacobNovember 29, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

Why doesn’t google make it where you can slice everything in half or something like that

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tog10tog10December 3, 2012 at 7:14 pm | #

type in zorg to google search bar its a google mini game

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AaronAaronJanuary 17, 2013 at 2:14 am | #

type in zerg rush on google

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shishiXDshishiXDFebruary 1, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

thanks me and my friends got a fun kick out of this it was fun.

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EXstrangERsEXstrangERsFebruary 8, 2013 at 12:38 pm | #

tnks for ALL!!!

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