Google – Holiday Easter Eggs
An Easter egg is an intentional hidden message or an in-joke inserted into a computer program or web page. Various Google services also hide Easter eggs meant to be amusing entertainment. This holiday seasons, the site was filled with many fun holiday tricks to help people get into the holiday spirit.
Easter eggs are messages, videos, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in a software program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other stimuli intended as a joke or to display program credits.
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Here is a complete list of recent Holiday Easter Eggs on Google you may have missed.
Google Do a Barrel Roll Search
Searching for “do a barrel roll” or *”Z or R twice” will rotate the results page a full 360 degrees. This is a reference to the Nintendo video game Star Fox 64.
Google Let It Snow Search
Searching for “let it snow” simulates snowfall and frost on the search results. After a while, the search screen fogs up and the blue search button changes to Defrost, enabling the user to defrost the page clicking and rubbing it like a window.
Google Hanukkah Search
Google users who search for ‘Hanukkah’ will get a surprise to mark the Jewish holiday, also known as Festival of Lights.
Searching for “hanukkah” changes the border between the search bar and search results into a row of lights shaped like the Star of David.
Google Santa or Christmas Search
Searching for “Santa Claus” or just simply “Santa”, “Christmas bells” or “Christmas candles” or “Christmas present” or “Christmas lights” or just simply “Christmas” changes the border between the search bar and search results into a row of colorful Christmas lights.
Interactive Happy Holidays Google Doodle
Interactive and musical doodle plays jingle bells for Christmas
Google Kwanzaa Search
Searching for “kwanzaa” changes the border between the search bar and search results into a row of Kinara, a candle holder with seven candles that represents the tradition’s roots.
YouTube Snowflakes
YouTube lets it snow with special holiday snowflake button. When you click it, snowflakes begin to fall from the top of the video.
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