Subtle Google easter egg

http://google.com/search?q=Comic+Sans

by ck2 • 15 years ago

51 25 15 years ago

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tdonia• 15 years ago

and http://www.google.com/search?q=helvetica

sbov• 15 years ago

Disappointed by the lack of http://www.google.com/search?q=wingdings

lallysingh• 15 years ago

I tried that a few times, before trying it on another machine. It helps to have a few fonts on your machine.

lojack• 15 years ago

and http://www.google.com/search?q=arial ...oh, wait

showerst• 15 years ago

What a rough day for bancomicsans.com to get hacked! Amusingly, they also give you a comic sans themed page if you search for 'Helvetica'

ChuckMcM2• 15 years ago

It would be uniquely both funny and useful if searching for a font name changed your results to that font (unlike the Comic Sans easter egg here). Imagine if you wanted to know what search results would look like in BookmanMedium.

The css hack posted earlier on HN can do that though, so its not like its impossible.

51Cards• 15 years ago

That is what this did this morning... Googling 'Comic Sans' gave you all your results in Comic Sans. Looks like they have pulled it now.

gbelote• 15 years ago

Thank you, I thought I was missing something really subtle

metachris3• 15 years ago

I hope you're referring to CSS Pivot :)

These are some of my favorites:

* Metafilter: http://www.csspivot.com/49KP9

* Google: http://www.csspivot.com/p950v

* Bing: http://www.csspivot.com/tUxGe

[Edit] Pro-Android peut-être: http://www.csspivot.com/fh2V1 (!)

julian37• 15 years ago

The Google one is broken for me, shouldn't it be five characters?

ChuckMcM2• 15 years ago

"I hope you're referring to CSS Pivot :)"

Absolutely, and congratulations are in order. Don't spend it all in one place :-)

jrockway• 15 years ago

I didn't get it, but then I realized that I don't have any of the MS fonts installed. Good riddance.

phinity• 15 years ago

http://www.google.com/search?&q=ascii+art the logo is really ascii text

puls• 15 years ago

Subtle? Really?

westcoastr13• 15 years ago

http://www.google.com/search?q=anagram

SageRaven• 15 years ago

http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion

slapshot• 15 years ago

The real question is: why were you searching for comic sans?

plasma• 15 years ago

Search for "recursion" for a real egg :)

mtogo2• 15 years ago

At the risk of sounding stupid, could someone explain this to me? I don't see it.

kprobst2• 15 years ago

You search for "Comic Sans", the results display in the Comic Sans font.

Sounds less funny when you explain it :)

mtogo2• 15 years ago

Ah, i must not have comic sans installed.

Thanks :)

kprobst2• 15 years ago

Anyone check the source?

    /*I liked Google better*/
    *{font-family:comic sans ms!important}
    /*before the fonts changed.*/

akkartik• 15 years ago

April Fool!

Checking HN for the first time in the day, I'm surprised the story from the http://searchengineland.com/for-april-fools-google-goes-comi... cluster that made it to the front-page was this one (no offense). And no other story from that cluster has been submitted as far as searchyc can tell.

Unless the joke's on me somehow..

Subtle Google easter egg

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