Maybe
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 you’d be so kind as
to like us on the you-know-what-book, or add a one to our G+ thingie.
We’d be so happy and thankful if you did.
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.”
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.
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.
This fun Google trick simply displays a mirror image of everything you might see when doing a search on Google.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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}”.
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!
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.
Type “recursion” into the Google search bar and Google in return asks, rather recursively: “Did you mean recursion?”
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
“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.
First,
it must be mentioned that this is not a post that contains the actual
host of Google Tricks we highlight here on the Google Tricks site. So if
you want to skip the chit-chat and get right to the meaty-juicy,
navigate to the Google Tricks For Search page for tips to help you refine your search results to razor sharpness. Or navigate to the Funny Google Tricks if you’re looking for the Easter Eggs and Doodles and Barrel Rolls and belly laughs. For all of you curious to find out a little bit of context, read on!
Without
a quick and handy manual for Google searches, it’s easy (for the lazy
like me, at least) to passively accept the sometimes disappointing
search results that are returned for terms without any of the basic or
advanced search tricks applied.
This
is not at all to say that the results are typically mediocre. No,
Google impresses me all the time. With this little gem from last night
for example: the missus and I wanted some of that bloody Mary mix we
love so much the spicy stuff, the pickle people, the…. what was it
called…?
She
opened her laptop and typed into the Google search field “pickles
Brooklyn Detroit.” MacClure’s. Bam. #1 with a bullet. Great Bloody Mary
mix, by the way, if you’re into the punishment-high of six-alarm tomato
juice, that is. (Brooklyn and Detroit are their two locations, if you’re
not already familiar). But I digress. You’re here for the Google
Tricks!
Here’s a few Search Tips to wet your palate:
Most
searchers know that wrapping your phrase in double quotes will return
results that include that phrase exactly, and fewer – but still many –
know that a minus sign (-) before a keyword will remove results with
that word in them. But this is merely the tip of the iceberg.
By
way of example, were you aware that you can drop an image into the
Google image search to get information about the image? A face, for
example, can return you the identity of the person, an object can return
more information about that object, or visually similar images. This
tool alone is incredibly powerful. Though I hope your vanity search
turns out better than mine:
Further still, on top of these basic Google Tricks there is a sort of second level of sophistication:
There
are “info:” searches that can help you learn more about a particular
website, such as how Google’s cached page of the site looks, what
external sites link to it, and how many of its pages are indexed by
Google.
Or
you can perform a “site” search, either by simply searching
[site:examplesite.com] or if you’re looking for something in particular
you could add a keyword, like so: [site:ansaritrixs.com +"keyword"].
Info and Site searches are just two of the lesser bodies in the great constellation of Google Search Tricks. Please move on the Google Tricks for Search page to really step up your search game or head over to the Google Tricks for fun if you’re just here for the yuks.
Got any of your own Google Tricks we haven’t mentioned? Share them with the rest of us by commenting below!
With this cool trick ,you are going yo see google logo,search box and all other stuffs on the google page falling down to the bottom of the browser as shown in figure
To do the above trick click on link Google gravity above or just write google gravity in google search box and switch to ."I'm Feeling lucky Button" and then search it.
As by its name it will show you the mirror image of google as show in figure
To do the above trick click on link elgooG above or just typing the elgoog in thrsearch engine with the "I'm Feeling lucky Button"
You can play pacman game on google as well as control it with your keyboard . To playpacman game click
on the pacman on google above or text pacman google in google search box
This will tilt on the google screen as shown in the below figure
This can be done by click on Tilt shown above or by text the tilt in google search box
It will increase the size of google each component bigger and bigger .Open google.com,type Epic Google in the search box on I'm feeling Lucky button.
This work opposite to epic Google .It decrease the size of each component smaller and smaller..Open google.com, type Weenie Google in the search box on I'm feeling Lucky button
To have a rainbow effect on google.open google.com type rainbow google in the searchbox and see rainbow google
This trick can use to show magic to others by disappearing oo from google. to do this click the above link , after that google search engine will appear to you then click on screen than after that after 3 sec. oo will diaappear
It will trace what you search on google and help to share what you search on google withfriends.
For seeing google Logo to dance click on above link .
Search with this like as you do in Google . Make your search funny by changing some letters into capital or some into small letters
It simply make use of google Custom Search To restrict your search to Torrent Files
It will Roll your screen by 360 degree and then show you the content.
It
is the one of the best April fool trick use to make fool of peoples by
concentrating on instruction and divert then from there search.
