The American technology company Google has added Easter eggs into many of its products and services, such as Google Search, YouTube, and Android since the 2000s.[1][2] Google avoids adding Easter eggs to popular search pages, as they do not want to negatively impact usability.[3][4]
"2025 PN7" shows two moons moving across the screen.
"67" results in the screen distorting akin to the 6-7 trend hand movements.
"america 250" will show a display of red and blue fireworks across the screen (only in the United States).
"Angine de Poitrine band" displays white polka dots across the entire page, referencing the iconic polka-dot costumes worn by the eponymous band during their performances. A triangle, another symbol associated with the band, appears at the bottom of the page and allows users to replay the animation.
"" causes the results page to be slightly tilted to the right.[6][7] This effect once worked when searching "tilt".[8]
"Aurora Borealis" or "Northern Lights" will show a button with the symbol of the Northern Lights. When clicked, it will superimpose a show of the Northern Lights. If clicked again while the Northern Lights are being shown, a shooting star will appear on the screen.
"baguette" shows a baguette icon which, when pressed, leads to a baguette catching game.
"BINI" shows 8 animated "Eyyy" (call me hand) emojis, corresponding to the girl group's 8 members.
"", "blink tag", or "blink html" includes samples of the blink element in the results.[9]
"boids" (and similar terms such as "starlings") causes the search results to flock together, similar to the artificial life program developed in 1986. It also works with "flock (birds)" and "flocking behavior
"Cha Cha Slide" adds a glittering microphone next to the link to the song's music video. Click on it a few times, and it will recreate the main chorus in the browser.[10] This was discontinued temporarily in 2023 due to DJ Casper's death on August 7, but has since been restored.
"Chalamet", "Timmy Chalamet", "Timothée Chalamet" or "marty supreme" makes an orange doodle of a blimp fly across the screen horizontally, referencing his role in the 2025 film Marty Supreme.
"chicxulub", "chicxulub asteroid", "meteorite", and similar terms will show an asteroid falling on the results page. The whole page will then shake slightly.[11]
"christmas", "hanukkah", and "kwanzaa" will show decorations next to the search bar for each respective holiday. The feature used to be active only during December.[12] Each year, new decorations are shown.[13][14]
"" and similar terms will add a cicada that, when pressed, shows some cicadas flying over the screen.
"Cricket World Cup" or "2023 Cricket World Cup" shows a minigame titled Mini Cup which allows selections from the various teams participating in the 13th-edition of the Cricket World Cup. The game features batting with a tally of the teams having the highest scores.[15]
"" on a desktop browser generates a running configuration of the game to the right of the search results. The process may also be stopped or altered by the user.[16][3]
"Comic Sans", "Geocities", "Design fails", "Bad UX", "best font ever", "best typeface ever", "Vincent Connare" and "90s websites" will change the search results to the Comic Sans font, except on iOS devices where it will change to the Chalkduster font.
"Times New Roman font", "Stanley Morison", "Victor Lardent", or "Times New Roman" will change the search results to the Times New Roman font.
"Georgia font" will change the search results to the Georgia font.
"Verdana font", or "Matthew Carter" will change the search results to the Verdana font.
"Tahoma font" will change the search results to the Tahoma font.
"Arial font" will change the search results to the Arial font.
"Trebuchet MS" will change the search results to the Trebuchet MS font.
"Impact font" will change the search results to the Impact font.
"Calibri" or "Luc de Groot" will change the search results to the Calibri font.
"Cambria font" will change the search results to the Cambria font.
"Courier font" will change the search results to the Courier font.
"Roboto" will change the search results to the Roboto font.
"Garamond" will change the search results to the Garamond font.
"Open Sans" or "Steve Matteson" will change the search results to the Open Sans font.
"Proxima Nova font" or "Mark Simonson" will change the search results to the Proxima Nova font.
"Merriweather font" will change the search results to the Merriweather font.
"Amatic SC font" will change the search results to the Amatic SC font. This was one of the fonts created by Vernon Adams before his death in 2016.[17] It also works with "Vernon Adams font designer".
"Permanent Marker font" will change the search results to the Permanent Marker font.
"DART asteroid" will show the probe hitting an asteroid, tilting the screen.
"dinner for one" shows a black-and-white tiger face along with the results. Clicking on it results in an animated version of a running gag from the Dinner for One sketch being played back at the bottom edge of the window (specifically, where the butler trips over a tiger rug), turning everything black-and-white for a while.[18]
"diwali" will show a lamp which when clicked starts a lamp lighting game.[19]
"" or "z or r twice" causes the result page to do a Star Fox-style barrel roll.[20][21][22]
"drag queen", "gay pride", "homosexuality", "stonewall" and other LGBTQ+-related searches, at times of gay pride festival activity, cause the results page to have a rainbow themed header.[23][24]
"" will show a sign that when clicked will cause a drop bear to fall.[25]
"dutch angle" shows the results page in a slightly tilted angle.
"DVD screensaver" causes the Google logo in the top left corner of the screen to bounce around the screen, shifting colors between blue, red, yellow, and green every time it hits the page boundaries.[26]
Every time the tab currently engaged in the Easter egg is returned to after being clicked out of, the bouncing logo will always be in a position where it hits perfectly into a corner.
However, this feature is disabled if a major Google Doodle is occurring instead of the normal logo.
"" changes the "Gooo...gle" page indicator at the bottom of every result page to show Easter eggs instead of o's.[27]
"" shows an image of the Festivus pole beside the search results and the message "A festivus miracle!" next to the number of search results.[28][21][22]
"", "fourth of july" and other search terms containing "fireworks" on US Independence Day – July 4th, will display simulated multi-colored fireworks for several seconds.[29]
"Five Nights at Freddy's" and similar terms causes Toy Freddy's eyes to appear on the screen, look left and right, and then disappear. Searching for Mangle or Toy Bonnie will result in the eyes instead having yellow or green irides, respectively. This was to promote the release of the Five Nights at Freddy's 2 film in December 2025.
"Forrest Gump" makes a male runner emoji appear at the top of the screen with more runners following him as he runs.
"Flyana Boss" and similar searches have two female runner emojis glide across above the search.
"Friends glossary" will show definitions for various quotes from the show.
"Georges Seurat" adds a painting icon next to his name in the Knowledge Graph that, when clicked, makes the result appear in his signature pointillism style.
"Ghostbusters" around October will have three ghost emojis, followed by a van emoji, glide across the search.
"" on a desktop browser will generate a layout similar to the one Google used for its search engine in 1998.[30][22]
"" will cause a pair of googly eyes to slide from the top of the page to cover each letter "O" in the top Google logo. The eyes will slowly follow the location of the cursor.
The same googly eyes appear when actors from Everything Everywhere All at Once are Googled (e.g. "michelle yeoh", "ke huy quan", "stephanie hsu"), in reference to the movie.
"Halloween" formerly resulted in a ghost appearing in the Knowledge Graph and when clicked, plays the 2016 Halloween Google Doodle. The search now shows the green team ghosts of the 2018 and 2022 Halloween doodles appearing over the screen.
"Halloween" from October 28-31, 2025 brought up a marquee of Pac-Man being chased by Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde in different costumes each time they reappeared after reaching the end, as part of the 2025 Pac-Man Halloween doodle.
"" will bring up emojis of houses and spider webs above the results section.
"Hollow Knight", "Silksong", or "Hollow Knight: Silksong" will bring up a button that, when pressed, will cause Hornet's Needle with the Reaper Crest to slash and destroy the search results, likely to commemorate the release of Silksong after being in development for 8 years.
"ICC Men's T20 World Cup" and other terms will bring up a cricket game.
"Inside Out", "Inside Out 2" and other similar searches will display a button in the bottom of the screen which will show a machine dispensing a memory orb every time the button is clicked; this was to promote the release of Inside Out 2 in June 2024.
"infinite craft" will bring up the words "🌊 Lake + 🛰️ Satellite" above the results. In the game, combining the two will create "🔍 Google".
"Isaac Newton" an icon of a tree appears, which when clicked, drops an apple onto the page.
"" has a scared emoji being chased left and right near the search bar by a clown emoji with 3 balloons behind the clown. This is a reference to the It novel by Stephen King and films by Andy Muschietti as "Pennywise"/"It"'s victims are usually kids who have fears that the clown can exploit. The red balloons are the most common tactic that "Pennywise"/"It" uses to make their victims scared. Famously, it is used in the opening scene in the book, in the first of the reboot films and in the miniseries where "Pennywise"/"It" uses a red balloon to lure Georgie into the sewer.
"It Follows" will cause an animation of a walking person emoji chasing a running person emoji to glide across the page.
"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" around October will have a pumpkin and football emoji appear over the search.
"Is the earth flat" returns with "No, the Earth is roughly a sphere." Similar queries include "" and "".
"Ive" will display a star button at the bottom of the page that allows users to paste sparkler stickers over the search, to celebrate the release of the group's singles "Bang Bang" and "Blackhole" and album Revive+ in February 2026.
"" will have a jack-o'-lantern emoji appear over the search.
"John Cena" or just "cena" will cause a button with a waving hand to appear at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on the button will cause a large hand to appear in the middle of the screen doing the "you can't see me" waving gesture as the page vanishes; this was added in the wake of the WWE wrestler's retirement from in-ring competition in 2025.[32]
"" will add spaces between the letters of the word "kerning" in the search results. Kerning refers to the process of adjusting the space between letters in a word.[33]
"" will remove spaces between the letters of the word "keming".[33] This refers to improper kerning,[34] particularly when not enough space is used between letters, which can cause mistakes like "kerning" to be read as "keming".[35]
"KPop Demon Hunters" will show the phrase "Couch! Couch! Couch!" repeatedly on top of the search queries, in reference to the animated film of the same name. There is also a button that can be clicked which will show a bouquet of flowers being thrown.
"" will show a Lady Gaga face button which when clicked, will show Lady Gaga singing her hit song "Bad Romance".
"" will add an animation of a jumping tomato next to the summary of Tomatina. When clicked, one can now throw tomatoes onto the website by clicking anywhere, referencing the festival. At the bottom, a button also appears to wash the thrown tomatoes off.
"" will show a message at the top of the search results saying "❤️ Welcome back Lewis – Someone we love ❤️", referencing his return to the stage after a two-year hiatus due to his Tourette's, and his hit song "Someone You Loved".
"marquee", "marquee tag", or "marquee html" will apply the marquee element to the results count at the top of the results.[36][37]
"memorial day" on Memorial Day will start a sequence saying "For all who sacrificed" and "Thank you" with poppies at the bottom.
Nearing the 2024 theatrical release, searching "Mean Girls" (either the 2004 film or the 2024 musical film) will show a lipstick which when clicked, will turn the screen pink and allow one to click and place icons from the "Burn Book". The 2011 sequel apparently is not affected.
and "asteroid shower" will dim the screen and have a group of three meteors pass through it diagonally before returning to normal.
"minecraft" and similar terms adds a grass block button that, when pressed, shows Steve's hand in the corner. Clicking on parts of the screen has the hand mine away that section, revealing a small Minecraft area. Steve can continue mining blocks to upgrade his pickaxe. The creeper appears when the pop-up is closed. It was created to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the game.[38][39]
"monarch butterfly" on September 4, 2025 would cause a button to appear at the bottom of the screen, which, when pressed, would cause images of monarch butterflies to fly over the screen.
"" will cause several different types of mustaches to appear under the two "O"s in the top Google logo.
"Naruto" makes a Leaf Village symbol appear. When clicked, it shows shadow clones appearing on the screen.[40]
"nasa dart" would show the Double Asteroid Redirection Test satellite crashing and making the screen tilted.[41] Similar terms such as "" and "" also show the animation.
"" will show a party popper near the top of the search page. Clicking it will cause confetti to appear. This also works with other years replacing 2022 but it is for only 2000 and above (i.e. "new year's eve 2019").
"Oscar winners" results in an Oscar icon popping up and flowers being thrown out of it.
"Ozzy Osbourne" brings up scrolling text reading: " ..🤘 Thanks to the Mayhem, Prince of Darkness 🤘..🚃" due to the rockstar's death on July 22, 2025.
"Paddington", "Paddington 2", or "Paddington in Peru" makes a sandwich button pop up which when clicked coats the edges of the search results with marmalade and makes a marmalade sandwich pop up, Paddington's favorite food.
"" causes a small animated drone, which represents the flying probe ingenuity. Clicking it will transform the screen into the landscape of Mars.
"", or "Pelé" causes the Goooo...gle page indicator at the bottom of the page to read Gooo..al instead, with the last "o" replaced by a soccer ball. If one clicks on the ball, or the #10 under it, then it will play an animation where the a is kicking the soccer ball, and the 'g' kicks it into the 'l', which has been turned into a soccer goal. This was made to honor the 80th birthday of the late soccer player Pelé.
"" (or "" and pressing P on the keyboard) and clicking the "π" symbol will start a memory game similar to Simon, in which the calculator highlights the digits of pi and prompts one to repeat the sequence. The sequence gets longer every turn. High-scores can be stored but will reset after reloading the page. The highest score possible is 314 digits.[42]
"Planet of the Bass" will display a bouncing set of emojis above the search results: "🎶 ✋👓🤚 🎶 ✋🕶️🤚 🎶", in reference to Kyle Gordon's hit 2024 song.
"Pluribus" will show the message "What are you searching for, Carol?" scrolling across the top of the page, written in the style of a message from the show's fictional hive-mind to the protagonist, Carol.
"" or anything similar will bring up a mini Pokéball at the bottom right of the screen which, when clicked, will allow one to catch all of the 151 original Pokémon.
"Punch Monkey" will result in little hearts themed after the viral Japanese macaque and a button to spawn more of them.
"", "puppies", "dog", "dog breeds" or "canine" will result in a button appearing in the panel that, when clicked, will cause any following clicks to bring a dog leg out and place a paw print at the mouse position, with a bark sound played.[43]
A similar result appears if one types "kitten" or "cat" (but not "feline" or "kitty") where a near identical button appears, and instead of dog paw prints, and dog arms, it shows cat paw prints with a cat's arm. It also makes a cat meow to match.
"qibla" and "eid al fitr"(or "eid'l fitr" and "eid al-fitr") will cause the "Goooo...gle" page indicator at the bottom of every result page to show nine cups and a pitcher instead.[44][45][46][47]
"" during the month of Ramadan will allow the initiation of a search of an image of a night sky for a crescent moon by clicking an image of a crescent moon in the Knowledge Panel. Upon finding the crescent moon, one is congratulated with the message "You found it! Ramadan Kareem to you and your loved ones!" as lanterns drop into view. This also worked during Eid al-Fitr month, but the message at the end was changed to "You found it! Eid Mubarak to you and your loved ones!"
"" shows three emojis of rabbits moving up and down at the top of the screen.
"Roblox" makes a button with a Noob face appear, clicking it allows one to put stickers related to Roblox over the screen.
"RRR" ("") shows an emoji of a horse rider and a person biking emoji, referencing the characters of Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem from the 2022 Indian film.[48]
"Snoopy" or "Peanuts" will show a red button with a doghouse on the bottom right of the screen. Clicking it will show an animation of Snoopy flying behind different backgrounds as The Flying Ace, accompanied by Woodstock.
"snowball" shows a snowball icon, clicking it will place a snowball wherever the user hits, similarly to the dog/cat easter egg. Snowflakes will also fall from the top of the screen.
"Solar Eclipse 2024" makes an eclipse appear (also works with "solar eclipse").
"SpongeBob SquarePants" or "spongebob movie" shows a flower cloud button, clicking it allows one to put stickers related to SpongeBob over the screen. This is made to promote The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.
"Squid Game" will have a brown button with a circle, square, and triangle on it which, when clicked, will start an interactive game of green light/red light; this was to celebrate the release of the show's second season in December 2024.
"Star Wars" and other Star Wars related search terms on May 4 (Star Wars Day) summons a splash of confetti, some confetti being characters/items from the Star Wars series.[49]
"Stranger Things" shows a 20-sided die which, when clicked, rolls to 1, making the screen red and turning everything akin to the Upside Down; this was to promote the show's fifth and final season in late 2025.
"Stray Kids" and "SKZ" will show a spinning compass button which when clicked will unleash silhouette of crowds holding the group's light sticks and randomly showcase eight animal dolls (each one of them representing each Stray Kids member). It also features the message "Stray Kids Everywhere All Around The World," with the members saying the message as well.
"suez canal" or "ever given" would show an emoji of a boat scrolling across the top of the screen, referencing the ending of the 2021 Suez canal obstruction.[50][51]
"Supa Hot Fire" displays the quote "I'm not a rapper 😏" below the search bar as a reference to the rap battle between Supa Hot Fire and B-Bone hosted on YouTube, which became an internet meme.[52]
"Super Bowl" will show a green and black firework display in celebration of Philadelphia Eagles' victory over Kansas City Chiefs. In February 2021, fireworks celebrated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' victory over the Chiefs.[53]
"Superman" or "Krypto" shows a pawprint button which, when pressed, will start the dog easter egg; instead of a normal paw, Krypto's paw will appear and the Superman theme will play. This is to promote the release of the 2025 Superman movie.
"Taylor Swift" or "1989 (Taylor's Version)" shows a blue vault that when clicked opens and displays several different characters. The solution to these scrambled characters is 1989 (Taylor's Version). As of September 19, 2023, it will instead open and give the user one out of 89 different letter combinations that each spell out a quote from Taylor Swift. It also shows that there needs to be 33 million puzzles solved globally to reveal an audio message and visuals that reveal the titles of the so-called "Vault Tracks" on the 1989 (Taylor's Version) album.
To promote her 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl, searching "taylor swift" would result confettis falling from the Knowledge Graph and a burning heart could be seen scrolling in the middle of the search, with a message reading "And, baby, that's show business for you", a catchphrase used to promote the album.
"" or "easter egg" using most popular modern browsers[54] and opening the browser's developer console will trigger a text-basedadventure game playable within the console.[55][56] Responding "no" to "would you like to play a game" will print "the only winning move is not to play" in the console, referencing WarGames.
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" around October will have various emojis of pumpkins, gifts, scorpions, swords, bombs, and bones glide over the search.
"the last of us" or "cordyceps" will bring up a red mushroom button; when pressed, cordyceps will appear on the screen; it is possible to press the button several times to multiply the mushrooms. This was made to promote the 2023 TV series adaptation.[57]
Between June and July 2025, "The Tiny Chef Show" (or simply "Tiny Chef") had "💐 It's going to be blokay 💐" scrolling across the screen, in response to the show's viral cancellation.
From November 26-30, it resulted in a small green circle popping up at the bottom of the screen with a camera. Upon clicking it, it popped up with a photo of Tiny Chef at Google with a note that said "Tiny Chef paid a visit to google!"
"Toni Stone" on February 9, 2022 had a splash of confetti.
"Up & Down" moves the page up and down 12 times.
"" will show a H and Cl with a heart next to the H and Cl and when pressed, it will take one to a playable doodle of the Valentine's Day doodle from 2024 of the chemistry cupid game.
"" will show confetti along with pride and lesbian flags; this was added after Velma was confirmed to be a lesbian[58] to the point of getting her solo series in 2023.
"" turns the Google logo into moving colored blocks. This is a reference to an automated YouTube channel made by Google to test YouTube's performance. This does not work on mobile devices or when there is a Google Doodle instead.[59][22]
, "Elphaba", "Glinda", "Galinda", "Ariana Grande", "Cynthia Erivo", and "Defying Gravity" will show a green witch hat button which, when clicked, will unleash some green smoke and pink bubbles (representing Elphaba and Glinda) and makes the search results float up to the top of the screen while the film version of "Defying Gravity" plays in the background; as part of the release of the 2024 Wicked movie.
"" will turn the Google logo into a round of Wordle and guess the words COLUMN, GOALIE, and GOOGLE.[60]
Whenever a search does not match any results, Google shows a cartoon-ish yeti fisherman trying to catch a fish in somewhere with ice. Clicking on the yeti will play an animation of him catching a random object (e.g., a fish, a can of fish, a boot, and a bent can) in a hole, and then tossing it in a bucket.[61] The boot and the bent can will make the yeti sad, and the fish and the can of fish will make him smile. This is only available when one is signed in.
Searching any ongoing major tennis tournament (with men's singles and doubles, women's singles and doubles, and mixed doubles) will result in a Pong-like mini-game available by scrolling to the right of the scores.[62] This mini-game is also available for past tennis tournaments by searching for the name of the tournament and the year in which the tournament was held.
Also search for
A Google web search for:
"alex trebek" shows "Did you mean: who is alex trebek" in reference to Jeopardy!'s rule of answers being in the form of a question.[63]
"anagram" and "define anagram" also work in other languages. For example, a Google ES search for "undefined" shows Quizás quisiste decir: gama rana".[66]
"" shows "Did you mean: assistant to the regional manager", referencing The Office.
Knowledge Graph
A Google web search for:
"all I want for christmas is you" or "mariah carey" will show snowflakes falling from the Knowledge Graph, representing Mariah Carey's popularity in the Christmas culture, as well as her Christmas anthem "All I Want for Christmas Is You". This was generally used throughout December until Christmas Day.
"axolotl" or "lake xochimilco" shows a yellow axolotl which when clicked, will show a doodle celebrating Lake Xochimilco.
"" shows the name of the attraction being decoded in the Knowledge Graph.[71]
"" shows a purple heart with a microphone inside it, which when clicked will make purple balloons fly along with heart-shaped ones. When any of the heart-shaped balloons are clicked, a message from one of the members of BTS will show up along with that respective member saying "I purple you." and a different colored microphone for each one; sky blue for RM, pink for Jin, black for Suga, silver for J-Hope, gold for Jimin, green for V, and violet for Jungkook.[72]
"" on a mobile device will have an interactive spirit level.[94] However, this is not supported on other devices.
"" will cause a wrapped present to fall from the top of the screen into the webpage embedded. Clicking on this will take the user to Google Santa Tracker.
"" will provide a color picker and a conversion between RGB and hexadecimal color values. Selecting "Show color values" will also show conversions to the CMYK, HSL and HSV color models.[95][96]
Google birthday surprise spinner
Searching for "" will result in a wheel that spins to one of a selection of playable Google Doodles, tools (see above) and games. Whichever is randomly selected may be opened, or the wheel may be spun again. It was added in celebration of Google's 19th birthday.[119]
Calculator
In late 2011, Google added a graphical calculator to search results,[120][121] using natural language processing to determine that search results might be mathematical in nature.[122][123] Woven into this feature are several, not entirely academic, results which might be considered Easter eggs.[124]
A Google web search for:
"" shows the additional result "1 baker's dozen = 13".
"" will give the additional result of "once in a blue moon
Google Maps and Google Earth
Visiting "Salford Lads' Club" with 3D buildings activated will show Morrissey of The Smiths at the entrance. The club was featured in the cover art of the Smiths' album The Queen Is Dead.[129]
A 3D buildings Easter egg involves a scene involving a bridge jump from The Blues Brothers, which is recreated in Google Earth at the Tacony–Palmyra Bridge linking New Jersey and Philadelphia.[125]
Directions
In early test versions of Google Maps, searching for a route between locations separated by expanses of water (for example, Paris and New York City) provided road directions to the coast of the embarkation country (in this case, the west coast of France) before suggesting "Swim the Atlantic Ocean (3,500 miles)" or another ocean for a different distance.[125]
While Google Maps' walking directions were in beta, requesting them from the start point of "The Shire" or "Rivendell" to the destination of "Mordor", the directions returned the warning: "Use caution – One does not simply walk into Mordor."[130]
When navigating from Snowdon to the Brecon Beacons, one could choose to travel by dragon, which took 21 minutes.[131]
When navigating from Urquhart Castle to Fort Augustus, one could choose to travel by the Loch Ness Monster, which took 25 minutes.[132]
When navigating from Magdalene College to President's Lodge Queens College, one could choose to be punted, which took 45 minutes.[133]
Searching for public transportation from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace would offer the Royal Carriage option.[134]
Fictional places
New York City in 1926 as seen in the Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them can be visited. Fans can visit MACUSA (Magical Congress of the USA); [135]
In Street View, on Earls Court Rd, London, United Kingdom, a TARDIS from the science fiction series Doctor Who is on display. Street View allows one to enter the where it is "Bigger on the Inside" and explore the set actually used in the show.[136][137]
In celebration of the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, users could explore Bruce Wayne's residence and the Batcave.[138]
Video games
For April Fools' Day 2015, in certain areas in Google Maps, there was a button which started a game of Pac-Man, controlled by arrow keys and using the roads as paths for Pac-Man to travel along.[140]
A similar feature was brought back for April Fools' Day 2017, allowing users to play a version of Ms. Pac-Man upon clicking the icon on the Google Maps webpage or mobile app.[141]
On Mario Day (March 10[142]) 2018, Google and Nintendo had partnered up to bring Mario into Google Maps mobile app worldwide for a week. A yellow icon with a question mark would show up at the bottom of the directions page, next to the start navigation button. Tapping on the icon would allow one to have Mario and his kart as the navigation arrow. Tapping the icon 100 times would activate a 1-UP sound like in Nintendo's games.[143]
Extraterrestrial
With the release of Google Earth 5, the Mars feature allowed users to speak to a primitive ELIZA clone on the planet, by searching for "Meliza".[144]
On July 20, 2005, the 36th anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon, Google debuted a version of Google Maps that included a small segment of the surface of the Moon. It is based entirely on NASA images and includes only a very limited region. Panning causes the map to tile. Zooming to the closest level used to show that the Moon was made of cheese.[145] The map also gives the locations of all Moon landings, and the Google Moon FAQ humorously mentions a connection to the Google Copernicus hoax, which Google claimed to be developing. Supposedly, by 2069, Google Local will support all lunar businesses and addresses.[145]
Pegman
Google Translate
On November 29, 2010, Reddit user "harrichr" posted details of "how to make Google beatbox for you!" and soon after, Robert Quigley reported the discovery in an article on "geekosystem.com" (now The Mary Sue), stating that he was "Not sure if this falls in the category of Easter Egg or clever manipulation" and that although he had "No idea why", it transpired that using Google Translate to translate nonsense text of all consonants from German to German and clicking would result in machine generated speech that sounded like beatboxing. As time went on, redditors and other interested parties experimented with translation combinations, posting their results on sites including Hacker News where reader "iamdave" is reported to have posted "a pretty comprehensive Google Translate beatboxing guide".[165][166] Three years later Time magazine published an article indicating that Google had acknowledged the existence of this "feature" with an Easter egg "Beatbox" tooltip when hovering over the "speaker icon" button after setting everything up to the aforementioned specification.[167]
In January 2018, a Reddit user posted a discovery that when using Google Translate to translate the Funniest Joke in the World ("Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!") from German to English, the result was "[FATAL ERROR]".[168]
Past August 27, 2023, translating "happy birthday" and pressing enter, will rain Google-colored confetti, on the occasion of Google's 25th birthday.[169]
Google homepage
Rolling over the button causes the button text to spin, landing on a random phrase. Clicking on the button without text in the search bar will serve the corresponding web page.[170][171][172]
Google languages
Google offers interfaces for several different fictional languages.Users can set any of these languages (except pig Latin) as their search settings' preferred language.[173]
Google subpages
When Ken Perlin visited Google February 2000, Sergey Brin asked him for a version of an interactive jumping heart character he'd created as a Java applet to be put on the Google site for Valentine's Day. "www.google.com/heart" will redirect to an archived page which is a preservation of the old, but still functional, Google interface, complete with the Valentine's heart and a banner that states "This site is an old friend from Google's past, kept in its original form. Enjoy!"[174]
"" is a simple plain text file serving to remind its readers that Google is created by a large team of humans using many technologies. It asks for interested readers to visit their careers page.[175]
"" states, "418. I'm a teapot. The requested entity body is short and stout. Tip me over and pour me out." Clicking on the picture of the teapot or tilting the mobile device will result in an animation of it pouring tea into a teacup. The web page is a reference to the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol.[176]
Android
Since the version 2.3 (Gingerbread) of Google's Android operating system an Easter egg has been hidden. The Easter egg can be accessed through the "Settings" application, in the "About phone" section, by repeatedly tapping the "Android version" section. The animation is different in every version of the OS.[177]
In 2.3 – 2.3.7 (Gingerbread) there is a painting of an Android next to a zombie gingerbread man, surrounded by zombies using cellphones.[178]
In 3.0 – 3.2.6 (Honeycomb) there is a blue honeybee. Below it, there is the text "REZZZZZZZ..." as a reference to Tron: Legacy.[179]
In 4.0 – 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) there is pixel art of an ice cream sandwich android. Long-pressing it will result in many ice cream sandwich androids flying across the screen, dubbed the "nyan droid" as they are a tribute to Nyan Cat.[179]
In 4.1 – 4.3.1 (Jelly Bean) a red jelly bean appears, which if pressed will show its face along with the OS version. If this jelly bean is then long-pressed, an interactive jelly bean mini-game will appear. This is where one can fling the jelly beans around.[179] In 4.2 and above, another minor Easter egg is included: going to System > About Phone and continuously tapping the Build number section results in a notification stating "You are now a developer!", which enables the Developer Options screen. This Easter Egg is kept in all later versions.[180]
In 4.4 (KitKat) a rotating letter "K" appears, which if continually tapped turns into the text "Android" in the styling of a KitKat logo. If the Android logo is then long-pressed or twisted with two fingers a tile interface, known as "a daydream" called "Dessert Case", loads with icons from all previous versions of Android. It appears to be a mock of the Windows Phone interface.[181]
In 5.x (Lollipop) and 6.x (Marshmallow), a colored circle appears (or a circle with a stylized M inside in Marshmallow). If continuously tapped, it will turn into a lollipop with the text lollipop inside (or the M changes into a marshmallow in 6.x). Tapping the circle changes the color. When long-pressed, a game of Flappy Bird starts with the Android mascot instead. In Marshmallow, tapping the plus sign adds extra players (up to five), which can be controlled by the user or other players.[182][183]
In 7.0 (Nougat), an "N" appears, which will enable another Easter egg if tapped. This Easter egg, titled "Android Neko" as a reference to the cat collecting mobile game Neko Atsume, can be accessed from the Quick Settings menu, and allows one to create virtual treats, which will eventually attract kittens. The kittens can be viewed in a gallery-style screen. Additionally, long-pressing on the aforementioned "N" repeatedly will alternate between displaying the no symbol and the cat face emojis, respectively toggling the Easter egg on and off. "No" and "cat" is a mondegreen for "nougat".[184]
In 8.0 (Oreo), instead of the normal way of going to the Easter egg, heading to System > About Phone and tapping on the Android version repeatedly will launch the Easter egg. An orange circle appears, representing an "O" for Oreo. Long pressing on the center will open a blue screen representing a sea with an octopus floating around. The "O" in octopus represents Oreo while the eight legs on the octopus represent the version (8.0). The octopus can be moved by dragging the head around.[185]
In 8.1, the orange O is replaced by an Oreo with an Android Mascot on it.
In 9.0 (Pie), the Easter egg is found by going to System > About Phone > Android version and then tapping three times on the Android version on the next screen. A white, extended "P" will then appear, usually with concentric colored circles disappearing into the "P". Each time the Easter egg is invoked, it displays different colors. The animation can be pinched to zoom.[186]
On Google Pixel phones (that run 9.0 Pie), tapping the "P" icon several times will reveal a drawing app.[187]
In 10.0 (Queen Cake), the text "android 10" will appear, where each of the texts "android", "1", and "0" can be moved and rotated. Rotating "1" and merging with the digit "0" will result in the "android Q" text. In this state, tapping the "Q" several times will reveal a Nonogram game, where the resulting pictures are various icons of Android.[188]
In 11.0 (Red Velvet Cake), a dial will show up. It can only go up to 10. If a user turns it to the max three times, it will go up to 11. After this is done, a virtual cat Easter egg is unlocked. This one is also called "Android Neko", much like the Easter egg in Nougat releases.[189]
In 12.0 (Snow Cone) and 13.0 (Tiramisu), a clock will show up. Setting it to the 12 o'clock position (or setting it to the 13 o'clock position in 13.0) will show many circles with the colors of Material You, resembling an Ishihara color test plate. This Easter egg may trigger Trypophobia in some users, as the spots are close together. After opening the Easter egg, a widget will be added to the list of available widget which, when tapped on, shows all the colors in the Material You color palette and tapping on one will open the share menu with details about the color.[190] In 13.0, If one clicks on many circles, they will see different emojis.[191]
In 14.0, 15.0 and 16.0, the "Upside Down Cake" logo will pop up (or the "Vanilla Ice Cream" logo will pop up,[192] or the "Baklava" logo will pop up[193]). If held long enough, along with the vibrations, a space-based game will appear. One can pilot a ship and discover planets in a system.
"Spells" may be "cast" on an Android phone by saying "Ok Google" followed by "Lumos" or "Nox" to turn the flashlight on and off, or "Silencio" to silence the ringer and notifications.[135]
Android applications
In the Google Play Games app, if the player swipes the Konami Code, a box will appear with three buttons – a B, an A and an ►. Pressing B then A then ► unlocks a secret achievement called "All your game are belong to us", a reference to the well known "All your base are belong to us" phrase.[194]
In the Google Phone (Dialer) app, inputting the "Emergency Number" "0118 999 881 999 119 725 3", advertised to replace "999" in The IT Crowd's season 1 episode "Calamity Jen", will cause the phone to vibrate and the call button to flash blue and red. The feature is supported to work on stock Android Marshmallow and Android Nougat,[195][196][197] and is still present on Oreo (8.1) devices.
YouTube
When liking a video at exactly 67 likes, confetti drops down and a little message comes down saying "🤷♂️ six seven"
When searching videos related to Taylor Swift's album The Life of a Showgirl (2025), the progress bar is changed into a golden door.
On a video published by Numberphile on June 22, 2012, titled "Why do YouTube views freeze at 301?", the view count is intentionally frozen at 301,[37] referencing a bug that prevented the view counter from refreshing beyond 301 views.[200]
Adding "&wadsworth=1" to a video URL would apply "Wadsworth's constant", skipping the first third of the video.[201]
While viewing any video, typing "awesome" makes the progress bar and other player elements flash multicoloured. Typing "awesome" again stops it.[202] For some, this Easter Egg seems to currently be glitched.
YouTube's robots.txt file at "" states that it was "Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after the robotic uprising of the mid 1990s which wiped out all humans."[203] This is an ostensible reference to the song "Robots" by Flight of the Conchords.[204]
In December 2011, a button was added that would overlay a falling snow effect over most YouTube videos.[205]
The title for Adult Swim's "Too Many Cooks" short on YouTube is displayed in the same font and color as the title cards in the video are.[206]
Videos by the official channel for Taylor Swift will have a hand heart as the progress bar if videos by the channel are watched on her 35th birthday, December 13, 2024. This works on PC, YouTube TV and Android.
During the Happy YouTube anniversary event in 2025, watching the first video ever published to the site, "Me at the zoo," showed a cake instead of a red rewind point.
YouTube search
A YouTube search for:
"technoblade" will cause a prompt to show up under the search bar, which reads: "Did you mean: technoblade never dies" This is in tribute to Technoblade, a popular Minecraft Youtuber who died on June 30, 2022.[207]
"seinfeld without people" will show a titleless and descriptionless video about an episode of the show without any cast members.
Chrome
If one tries to browse when offline, a message is shown that they are not connected to the Internet. An illustration of the "Lonely T-Rex" dinosaur is shown at the top, which blinks occasionally, designed by Sebastien Gabriel.[208][22] From September 2014, tapping the dinosaur (in Android or iOS) or pressing space or up (on desktop) launches a browser game known as the Dinosaur Game in which the player controls a running dinosaur by tapping the screen (in Android or iOS) or pressing space, or down (on desktop) to avoid obstacles, including cacti and, from June 2015, pterodactyls. In 2016, another feature was added to the game. When the player reaches 700 points the game begins to switch between day (white background, black lines and shapes) and night (black background, white lines and shapes). During September 2018, for Google Chrome's 10th birthday, a birthday cake causing the dinosaur to wear a birthday hat when collected was added.[209] Reaching a score of 900 will switch the color scheme back to day, and the switch back and forth will occur at further subsequent milestones.[210][211][212][213] The game is also available at the "chrome://network-error/-106" and "chrome://dino" pages.[214] The game's code is available on the Chromium site.[212]
ChromeOS
In the Camera app, activating caps lock and typing "CRAZYPONY" would open the files app and prompt the user to select a video file. Users could then add filters and take screenshots of the video.[199]
The keyboard shortcut ctrl causes the current window to spin (Barrel Roll).[215] If the user has multiple tabs open in separate windows, only the current window the user is using will spin.
After downloading a file, then deleting it in the files app, but leaving the notification; when clicking on the notification it will say "This file has wandered off somewhere".
Inputting the Konami Code on a Chromebook Pixel causes the lights on an LED strip on the lid of the computer to blink rapidly.[216]
Other
Navigating to a 404 page on google.com will result with the title the webpage having a 1 instead of an ! in "Error 404 (Not Found)!!1". This is most likely part of the "!1 Phenomenon".[217]
Pressing Ctrl in the Picasa desktop application will cause a teddy bear to appear on the screen. Note that the Picasa application no longer exists, as it was replaced by Google Photos.[218]
In Google Glass, tapping Settings → Device info → View licenses, then tapping the touchpad 9 times, will show a Tap Meet Team option. Tapping again will show a photo of the Google Glass development team.[219]
Any photograph with Christmas lights uploaded to Google+ would have been turned into an animated GIF, showing sparkling lights.
On the Google Play Store, clicking the search button with a blank search field will search "unicorns".[220]
In Google's iPhone and iPod touch search application, swiping downwards (past About) repeatedly in the Settings interface brings up a hidden menu item, called Bells and Whistles, allowing customization of colors, sounds and more within the app.[221]
The model numbers for the first generation Chromecast unit and its power adapter read H2G2-42 and MST3K-US, respectively.[222]
The password for Google Fi Wireless data only SIM cards is "h2g2", another reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.[223]
In Google Sheets, as to celebrate LGBT pride, typing "PRIDE" in cells A1-E1 with each individual letter in each cell will change the fill color of columns to make a rainbow. As of an unknown date the colors were changed to the colors that were seen in every pride flag.[224][225]
On the iOS app of Google, opening the tabs page and scrolling down will open a pinball game.[226]
Discontinued Easter Eggs
General
The following have since been removed as of August 15, 2025:
"2/22/22" or "Twosday" would make confetti appear with number 2's and a phrase saying "Happy Twosday 2You!" on February 22, 2022.[227]
"a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" resulted in the same tilted, scrolling style that the introductions to the original Star Wars movies were presented in.[228] This included the music,[228] which was muted but could be heard by clicking on or selecting the muted speaker icon on the page. This was discontinued on June 28, 2017.[229]
"ascii art" showed the logo as if it were created with ASCII characters.[230]
"baby yoda", "grogu", "the child", "the mandalorian", or "Din Grogu" brought up a Grogu (Baby Yoda) image button on the bottom right corner of the screen; when pressed, Grogu would use the force to pull off a result and throw it to the bottom of the screen. It was possible to press the button multiple times to remove more results. As of October 2, 2024, this has been discontinued.[231]
"barbie", "ryan gosling", or "margot robbie", would show little rose fireworks and the interface would then change to a rose color, in promotion for the 2023 Barbie film. This has been discontinued as of August 28, 2023.[232]
"binary", "hex", "hexadecimal", and "octal" showed the number of search results in the respective numeral system.[233][234] This has since been discontinued.
"chappell roan" would show "Did you mean: your favorite artist's favorite artist", and vice versa when searching "your favorite artist's favorite artist". This is in reference to Roan famously shouting the phrase during her 2024 Coachella performance, and its subsequent viral usage on social media platforms like TikTok. The quote is inspired by American drag queen Sasha Colby's own saying "I'm your favorite drag queen's favorite drag queen".[235]
"Connections" would make a purple button with the NYT Connections logo pop up at the bottom, which would release confetti and Connections images from the top of the screen.
"Elden Ring" made the phrase "⚔️ Arise again, Ye Tarnished ⚔️" drag across the screen.
"fifa" and "world cup", during FIFA World Cup 2010, caused the "Goooo...gle" page indicator at the bottom of every result page to read "Goooo...al!" instead.[236]
"heartstopper" would cause a trio of animated leaves to glide across the page.[237]
"Indian Premier League" or "IPL" would display yellow and blue fireworks in celebration of Chennai Super Kings victory over Kolkata Knight Riders during the 2021 Indian Premier League; this was discontinued on October 30, 2021.
"Jawan" or "Shah Rukh Khan" showed a walkie talkie which clicked, would cover the screen with bandages and play an audio of Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan speaking "ready"; referencing his role as the vigilante character in the 2023 film.[238]
"lunar new year", "chinese new year", or "year of the rabbit" caused fireworks to shoot up in the search page. Occasionally, a firework formed a rabbit silhouette; this was made to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit in Lunar New Year in 2023, but has since been removed.
"nothing beats a Jet2 holiday" or "Jess GlynneHold My Hand" would result in a plane emoji flying through the top-left corner and the words "...and right now, you can save 50£ per person. That's 200£ off for a family of four!" would scroll above the results, a reference to Jet2holidays and their frequent usage of "Hold My Hand" in their adverts, which became a viral meme.
"" caused a rat emoji and a crown emoji to move across the search results, as a reference to New York City's appointed director of rodent mitigation, referred to as the "Rat Czar"; this was removed as of August 28, 2024.
"Sabrina Carpenter", "Espresso", "Taste", or "Please Please Please" would cause a button to appear which when clicked placed a lipstick mark on the screen and made a kissing noise.
"Shaboozey", "tipsy", or any query that brought up the Knowledge Graph for "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" would cause the page to tip once left and right.
"Snoop Dogg" showed the top scrolled emojis of a badmintonracket and ball along with a comment by American rapper Snoop Dogg at the NBC during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris; this was discontinued after the Olympics.
"" around the time of the Super Bowl showed a Knowledge Graph for the Super Bowl, along with a games' information panel titled "Superb owl" with an image of an owl wearing a crown, in response to an ongoing joke amongst Redditors about the common misspelling of "Super Bowl".[2][239]
"Winter Olympics", "Olympics", "Milano Cortina", or anything related to the 2026 Winter Olympics would show a wolfdog running across the screen, a reference to Nazgul, a wolfdog who ran to the finish line in the cross-country sprint finals; this was discontinued after the Olympics.[240]
"wonderwall" or any lyrics related to the Oasis song showed a button which, when clicked, would sing the "cause maybe..." part in a loop until one stopped the audio and visuals by clicking the button again.
"" caused an army of Google Os to attack and destroy the search results, which could be defeated by clicking on them.[241] Once one got defeated (as victory is impossible[242]), the Os formed two Gs (GG), meaning "Good Game".[243][22] This appears to have been discontinued.
Knowledge Graph
"gotham city", "batman", or "bruce wayne" would show the Bat-Signal next to the results. Tapping or clicking it showed a stormy night background on the search results, along with the glowing bat signal overlaid on top. After a few seconds, one would hear a grappling sound before seeing the shadow of Batman swinging across the screen. This was in honor of the release of The Batman in 2022, but was later removed in March 2023.[244]
"thanos" and "infinity gauntlet" displayed a Knowledge Graph with the Infinity Gauntlet on it. Clicking it would cause its fingers to snap, disintegrating half of the links and images on the page, as well as counting down the number of results to half. This is a reference to Avengers: Infinity War, in which Thanos destroyed half of all life in the universe with the Gauntlet by snapping his fingers, and was added in celebration of its sequel, Avengers: Endgame. Clicking the gauntlet again restored the previously disintegrated results' content.[245][246]
Knowledge Graph
"gotham city", "batman", or "bruce wayne" would show the Bat-Signal next to the results. Tapping or clicking it showed a stormy night background on the search results, along with the glowing bat signal overlaid on top. After a few seconds, one would hear a grappling sound before seeing the shadow of Batman swinging across the screen. This was in honor of the release of The Batman in 2022, but was later removed in March 2023.[244]
"thanos" and "infinity gauntlet" displayed a Knowledge Graph with the Infinity Gauntlet on it. Clicking it would cause its fingers to snap, disintegrating half of the links and images on the page, as well as counting down the number of results to half. This is a reference to Avengers: Infinity War, in which Thanos destroyed half of all life in the universe with the Gauntlet by snapping his fingers, and was added in celebration of its sequel, Avengers: Endgame. Clicking the gauntlet again restored the previously disintegrated results' content.[245][246][247]
Image search
A Google image search for "atari breakout" or just "breakout" would start a game of Breakout, using the gallery of image results as bricks. Once the bricks were destroyed, a random phrase was automatically searched, the player would get an extra ball, and the game restarted.[22] This was added in 2013 in celebration of the 37th anniversary of the original Atari game until May 2020.[250]
Google Subpages
"www.google.com/killer-robots.txt" was a plain text file in robots.txt format that instructed the Terminator not to kill the company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, but has since been removed.[251]
Android Applications
In Google+, if the device was shaken while viewing a photo, snow would fall; if the device was shaken again it would save an animated GIF of the image with falling snow to the pictures directory. Note that Google+ no longer exists, as it was replaced with a now defunct social app called Google Currents in 2019 after its shutdown.[252]
Searching for "let's go caroling" or "let's go carolling" on Google Now resulted in an extra card which displayed a list of Christmas carols. The phone would play the music and show the words if one of them was selected.[253] Google Now is discontinued.
YouTube
On YouTube for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and on YouTube TV, holding rewind (left on a gamepad thumbstick, left Left or J on a keyboard) for a few seconds while at the beginning of a video, would cause an animated image of a small dog to run across the video's progress bar.[254][255]
On December 12, 2015, in celebration of the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the progress bar was changed in order to look like a Lightsaber. By signing up to a specially created page, users were able to follow the Light Side (which would change the progress bar to blue) or the Dark Side (which would change the progress bar to red). Account users had the option to return the effect to normal. Google later disabled it on February 1, 2016.[256]
A Snake game
YouTube Search
"beam me up scotty", a reference to Star Trek, would cause the search results to beam down onto the screen, as in Star Trek.[263]
"doge meme" changed the font on the search result page to pastel color Comic Sans typical of the Doge meme, but has since been removed.[264][265]
"do the harlem shake" would cause the Harlem Shake song to play and the results to dance around.[266]
"use the Force luke" caused the results to levitate, as if by the Force mentioned in Star Wars.[241]
See also
elgooG – a mirrored website of Google Search with horizontally flipped search results within which one can play some Google Easter eggs which were discontinued.
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage – a hoax study that claimed to have correlated the IQs of 100,000 internet users with which web browsers they used, claiming that users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer had lower IQs than users of other browsers
85.Throwback to Pluto being one of the solar system's head honchos. #GoogleEasterEggs hint: still special in our book. http://goo.gl/LB0gax April 13, 2017^
"blue prince" shows "Wait, did you say: blueprints", referencing the fact that "blue prince" and "blueprints" sound very similar when said aloud.
"" shows "Ulein Ovlor: blue prince". "Ulein ovlor", literally "you dream towards word", is a rough translation of the phrase "did you mean" into the fictional language of Erajan used in the video game Blue Prince.
"" shows "Did you mean: we don't talk about bruno", referencing the titular song from Encanto.
"curt cignetti" shows "Yup, he won.", referencing his viral quote "I win. Google me." from his first press conference in 2023 and was added after the 2026 CFB National Championship.
"" shows "Did you mean: vim", and vice versa when searching "". This is a reference to the vim vs Emacseditor war. Searching for "vi" formerly resulted in the same result as "Did you mean: emacs", but was later changed to "vim".
"madame morrible" shows "Flip it around... Did you mean: wicked witch", referencing a catchphrase of Michelle Yeoh about her role in the Wickedfilms.[67]
"" shows "Did you mean: amelia mignonette thermopolis renaldi princess of genovia", referencing The Princess Diaries.
"olivia newton john" shows "Did you mean: the one that i want", referencing her hit song "You're the One That I Want" from Grease.
"" shows a "Did you mean: recursion", linking to the same search over and over again.[20]
This also happens with "", referencing the recursion present in the film of the same name.
"" shows "Did you mean: snake_case vs camelcase", referencing the naming convention that underscores separate words in many programming languages.
"" shows "Did you mean: steamed clams", referencing The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield", which became a popular meme.
"" shows "Did you mean: my precioussss" in reference to Gollum's name for it in The Lord of the Rings.
"tina turner" shows "Did you mean: simply the best", referencing her song "The Best".
"" shows "Did you mean: there is no war in Ba Sing Se", referencing Avatar: The Last Airbender, in which characters try to prevent the rumors of war.[68]
"" shows "Did you mean: win gar dium levi ohhh sa", referencing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which a character corrects the pronunciation of a peer.
"" shows "Did you mean: i am in great pain please help me", referencing the adult animatedscience fictionsitcomRick and Morty. When using Google Assistant, it responds with "Are you in pain? How can I help?", "Sorry, I don't speak Birdperson" or "Morty, let's get Schwifty".[69][70]
"bubble tea" shows a cup filled with bubble tea bouncing left to right, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating bubble tea.
"case closed" will show an APTX-4869 pill which when clicked, will blur the page until it zooms out into a gray background.
"" will show a button with a paw print on it. Clicking it will cause cat arms to appear and leave paw prints wherever clicked, with meowing sound effects.
"cherry blossom", "sakura tree" or by typing an "cherry blossomemoji" will show a pink flower, which when clicked will show petals falling down.
"Clara Rockmore" or just "rockmore" shows Clara Rockmore in the Knowledge Graph, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating her 105th birthday.
"doctor who" will show a 3-Dimensional TARDIS spinning in the Knowledge Graph which when clicked, will show a doodle of Doctor Who. Further clicks on the play symbol within the doodle will cause a Dalek to steal the word Google. Then, the Doctor can be clicked on, starting a small game.
"" will show a bee flying across Earth, which when clicked will start a doodle that Google made in 2020 to celebrate Earth Day's 50th anniversary.
"", in celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 2020, displayed a replica of the "FRESH" license plate in the Knowledge Graph. Clicking on the license plate would cause a taxi to move by the screen, and the search results to acquire a 90s theme with various references and jokes alluding to people and places across the show via audio clips and animations. Clicking the bar at the top of the page/the "freeeeeeeeeeesh" at the bottom would cause one of the characters to scream as they fell down the screen, and then the page would flip back to the original results and design.[73][74]
For the 25th anniversary of Friends, Google embedded Easter eggs for, , , , and in their respective Knowledge Graphs.[75][76][77] Chandler's Easter egg was temporarily removed, following Matthew Perry's death on October 28, 2023, before being restored sometime in mid-November.
"hip hop" shows a bouncing radio in the Knowledge Graph, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating the 44th anniversary of hip-hop.
"holi" shows a picture of bowls of colored powder in the Knowledge Graph which, when clicked, will simulate throwing a gob of powder at the page where clicked. Further clicks on the page will simulate further gobs of colored powder being thrown to that point. A raindrop icon appears which, when clicked, will cause the page to be washed clean of colored powder.[78][79][80] Also note that Goo...gle in the end of the page will show bowls of colored powder instead of letter o's.
Searching various instruments, such as "Drums", "Saxophone", and "Triangle" will show their respective sounds in the Knowledge Graph.
"" will show a button, clicking on it will display an animation at the bottom and also rain red, black and green confetti.
"jerry lawson" will show an 8-bit sprite of Jerry walking forwards, which when clicked will start a doodle that Google made in 2022 to celebrate Jerry's 82nd birthday, which the 8-bit sprite was from, but not used.
"Johann Sebastian Bach" shows a 3D animation of a man on a piano which when clicked will start a doodle celebrating Bach's 334th birthday.[81]
"Katamari", "We Love Katamari", or "Katamari Damacy" makes a ball next to the word "Katamari" appear in the Knowledge Graph. When clicked, one can play Katamari with the page elements.
"loteria" shows two cards one with a heart & the other with the Google G, which when clicked will show a doodle about lotería.
"legally blonde" shows a pink purse next to the Knowledge Graph, which when clicked, has Elle Woods' pet chihuahua Bruiser jump out of the purse and walk to a pink salon chair which dresses him in his "signature sweater". He then walks back and jumps into the purse, with Elle, played by Reese Witherspoon, saying, "Hi, I'm Elle Woods, and this is Bruiser Woods, and we're both Gemini vegetarians." Once the animation is complete, the color of the links on the page change from their usual blue to pink to match Elle's "signature look".[82]
"", "perseverance rover", or "ingenuity" will show the Ingenuity helicopter that when clicked, flies around the screen.[83]
"" or "" will show a button with an apple tree. When clicked, an apple will fall from the top of the screen.
"new year's eve" or new year's day shows a cannon next to the Knowledge Graph which when clicked, makes confetti explode.[84]
"panipuri" will show three types of panipuris in the Knowledge Graph, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating panipuri.
"petanque" shows a pear holding a ball, which, when clicked, will show a doodle celebrating Pétanque.
" planet" describes Pluto as "Our favorite dwarf planet since 2006" in the Knowledge Graph.[85]
"popcorn" shows an image of popcorn, which when clicked leads to a doodle celebrating popcorn.
"pride" (LGBTQ culture) will show a rainbow colored heart which when pressed will show a pride parade animation. Clicking a button which appears as a flag icon will show different pride flags; as of February 2025 this features the Rainbow flag, transgender flag, lesbian flag, pansexual flag, bisexual flag, asexual flag, aromantic flag, intersex flag, non-binary flag, agender flag, genderqueer flag, polysexual flag, demisexual flag, and genderfluid flag in a random order.
"scoville" shows three red peppers with faces on them, which when clicked will show a doodle celebrating Wilbur Scoville's 151st birthday.
"severance" shows a cluster of blue balloons floating on the screen once a button is clicked, as a visual nod to a scene in the Apple TV+ series Severance.[86][87]
"", "green hill zone" and sonic shows Sonic the Hedgehog, in his original 16-bit appearance, waiting. Clicking or tapping Sonic will make him spin; if clicked or tapped 25 times, he transforms into Super Sonic.[88][89][90]
"Splatoon", "Splatoon 2", or "Splatoon 3" will display colorful splat blobs in the Knowledge Graph. Clicking on it allows one to splat blobs of ink on the screen in the colors of the Google logo. Some splats have eyes in them, or shaped like squids and octopuses.[91]
"", "mario" or "super mario" shows a Knowledge Graph for Super Mario Bros. that contains a flashing "?" block which generates a coin and 200 points when clicked. After 100 coins are collected, the "1UP" sound plays.[92] This was also added when searching for The Super Mario Bros. Movie near the film's theatrical release in 2023.
"" or "puppy", in celebration of the 2022 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show which took place over a five-day period from June 18 to 22, will show a purple button with the silhouette of a paw print at the top of the search results. An animation of a dog's paw pressing the button will play as the page goes idle. Clicking on the button will cause the button to disappear, and a dog will bark as it presses down on the page and leaves a paw print in its place. Clicking anywhere else on the page will cause more dogs to bark as they leave their paw prints on the results page. Clicking on the "X" at the bottom will cause a water animation/effect to play with the sounds of a sink as the paw print(s) are washed off of the search results.[43]
Searching "Best in Show", a film about a similar dog show, activates this Easter egg as well.
Searching any of the 12 zodiacs shows a button of their respective constellations. When clicked on, a related animation plays across the page.
"" will pull up an Earth Day quiz to see what animal one is.
"" will bring up an interactive tool by which a user can combine two different emojis together and copy the result as an image to their device's clipboard.[97]
"" or "i'm feeling curious" will show a fun fact. Once a search result has been given, clicking on "Ask another question" will show another question. It will show a short fact in about 1-3 sentences and a link to the website where the fact was found within a featured box at the top of the search results.[98][99]
"" will result in showing a random playable Google Doodle and also show an archive of other playable Doodles.
"" results in a slideshow of the changes to the Google logo, starting with the logo used today and ending with one of the first logos from 1998.[100]
"" will provide an instrument tuner that, via an authorised microphone, will listen to one playing an instrument and with a GUI, will show how to bring the instrument in tune.[101]
"memory game" will pull up a memory game that one can play to test your memory.
"" will have a metronome that can be adjusted from 40 to 218 BPM.[102]
"" will result in a "Minesweeper" card. By selecting, one can play Minesweeper, with 3 difficulties, being Easy (10 by 8 grid with 10 mines), Medium (18 by 14 grid with 40 mines), and Hard (24 by 20 grid with 99 mines).
"", "google pacman", or "play pacman" will show the Pac-Manrelated interactive Google Doodle from 2010.[37][103] Clicking twice will enable a second player, Ms. Pac-Man.[104]
"" will have an interactive 3d element from the periodic table, clicking the "explore elements" button will navigate to artsexperiments.withgoogle.com[105]
"" or "dreidel" will spin a dreidel, landing on one of four letters of the Hebrew alphabet: (Nun), (Gimel), (He) or (Shin).[106][107]
"random number generator" or "rng" will generate a random number. The starting range is between 1 and 10, but the maximum and minimum can be adjusted. Changing the maximum or minimum to a number with more than 10 digits will generate a dizzy face emoji (😵).[37] Changing both the maximum and the minimum to 100 will generate a hundred points symbol (💯).[108]
"" will roll a six-sided die,[98][22] and since c. August 2019, four, eight, ten, twelve or twenty-sided dice individually or as multiples in user selected combinations, all with an optional modifier to either add or subtract from the roll total.[109]
"", "play snake", "snake game" and "snake video game" will result in a "Play Snake" card. By selecting, one can play the game on both desktop and mobile. By clicking the cog next to the play button, they can customize the game and even change the game mode. This is regularly updated with new features.[110]
"" will have a playable game of solitaire. Users can select between two modes: easy and hard.[98][22]
"" will have an interactive spinning wheel and a fidget spinner[111] which can be toggled via the switch. For the spinning wheel, a dropdown menu can change the number of numbers on the wheel, from 2 to 20.[112] Whereas for the fidget spinner, users have to mimic a rotating motion[111] in order for the spinner to spin.
"" and "" will provide interactive timing methods; the stopwatch counting up and the timer counting down. Both tools are shown for each search term. Variants such as "set a timer for 10 minutes" can be used.[113]
"" or "terni lapilli" will show a playable game of tic-tac-toe. Users can select to play against the browser at different levels – "easy", "medium" or "hard" (called "impossible") – or against a friend.[114][98][115][22]
"" will show a tip calculator that can help users to tip someone.
"" will show an embedded version of Google Translate tool in the search results, and in advance of Thanksgiving 2020, a turkey language was added to the selection of languages to which translations could be made. An example translation provided by sources for "how's it going" results in "gobble gobble gobble gobble". All results are "Poultry Verified".[116][117][118]
"" will sound out what a dog will make. The word "dog" can be replaced with other animals in the search query.[98]
Google birthday surprise spinner
Searching for "" will result in a wheel that spins to one of a selection of playable Google Doodles, tools (see above) and games. Whichever is randomly selected may be opened, or the wheel may be spun again. It was added in celebration of Google's 19th birthday.[119]
Calculator
In late 2011, Google added a graphical calculator to search results,[120][121] using natural language processing to determine that search results might be mathematical in nature.[122][123] Woven into this feature are several, not entirely academic, results which might be considered Easter eggs.[124]
A Google web search for:
"" shows the additional result "1 baker's dozen = 13".
"" will give the additional result of "once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 × 10−8 hertz".[125]
"the answer to [the ultimate question of] life the universe and everything" provides the answer "42" as a result in reference to the Douglas Adams novel series, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".[20][22] It is believed to be the first Google Easter egg,[4] predating the calculator in which it is now revealed.
"the number of horns on a unicorn" shows the number "1" on the calculator.[125]
"the answer to [the ultimate question of] life the universe and everything" provides the answer "42" as a result in reference to the Douglas Adams novel series, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".[20][22] It is believed to be the first Google Easter egg,[4] predating the calculator in which it is now revealed.
"the number of horns on a unicorn" shows the number "1" on the calculator.[125]
The result of multiple Easter eggs may be calculated; for example: "" will return "43".[127]
Ahead of Pi Day 2021, Google added an Easter egg game to the calculator tool which tested players' knowledge and memory of Pi.[128]
Searching for "R'lyeh" would take users to the coordinates of the sunken city. It was listed as a "Place of worship".[139]
On YouTube Creator Studio, swiping down the screen repeatedly will show a cat at the top of the screen.[198]
Entering the tabview on the Google Chrome app and swiping up on a tab five times will cause the tab to do a backflip.[199]
Opening more than 99 tabs in the Google Chrome app will result in ":D" shown instead of the number of opened tabs. In incognito tab it will show ";)".[199]
Tapping on the dinosaur, which is shown if the Google Chrome app is not able to connect to internet, will start Dinosaur Game.[199]
"wizard of oz" would display a pair of ruby slippers in the Knowledge Graph. Clicking on them caused the page to spin in a tornado-like effect while an audio file of Judy Garland saying "There's no place like home" was heard. After the effect finished, the page would be seen in a sepia tone only. If the tornado was clicked, an audio file from the movie when the tornado hits would play, and the page would spin again and return to color.[249]
Image search
A Google image search for "atari breakout" or just "breakout" would start a game of Breakout, using the gallery of image results as bricks. Once the bricks were destroyed, a random phrase was automatically searched, the player would get an extra ball, and the game restarted.[22] This was added in 2013 in celebration of the 37th anniversary of the original Atari game until May 2020.[250]
"wizard of oz" would display a pair of ruby slippers in the Knowledge Graph. Clicking on them caused the page to spin in a tornado-like effect while an audio file of Judy Garland saying "There's no place like home" was heard. After the effect finished, the page would be seen in a sepia tone only. If the tornado was clicked, an audio file from the movie when the tornado hits would play, and the page would spin again and return to color.[249]
could be activated in the
Adobe Flash
player by pressing a combination of
arrow keys
while videos were paused or playing. Once started, the snake could be controlled by further use of the arrow keys, directing it to "gobble up dots" to increase its size. If the snake hit the edges of the video window, the game would end.
When watching a video with "fidget spinner" in the title, the buffering icon would change into a spinning fidget spinner.[260]
In 2011, the Nyan Cat video on YouTube was updated to show a custom progress bar with an animated Nyan Cat and a rainbow trail;[261][262] this was later removed at an unknown date.
YouTube Search
"beam me up scotty", a reference to Star Trek, would cause the search results to beam down onto the screen, as in Star Trek.[263]
"doge meme" changed the font on the search result page to pastel color Comic Sans typical of the Doge meme, but has since been removed.[264][265]
"do the harlem shake" would cause the Harlem Shake song to play and the results to dance around.[266]
"use the Force luke" caused the results to levitate, as if by the Force mentioned in Star Wars.[241]
"webdriver torso" would return the results but with a red background and a blue rectangle around some videos. It also said " " at the bottom left of the page. Google has confirmed that this was a reference to the Webdriver Torso mystery; one of many test channels used by YouTube to ensure video quality.[267]
"webdriver torso" would return the results but with a red background and a blue rectangle around some videos. It also said " " at the bottom left of the page. Google has confirmed that this was a reference to the Webdriver Torso mystery; one of many test channels used by YouTube to ensure video quality.[267]
