Blink

Actually after you go to https://www.google.com/search?q=<blink> you can type anything else into the search bar and since the css rule is still there, it'll blink the search term in the results

spyder2• 12 years ago

Cool: https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=%22You+can+mak...

ankit84• 12 years ago

It's not just blink keywrod. Happening for anything: https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=%3CGOOGLE%3E

user24• 12 years ago

Incorrect. You're only getting the blinking because <blink> is still in the URL.

compare your link to mine: https://www.google.com/search?q=%3CGOOGLE%3E&safe=off

This is probably a bug.

Same applies for the [tilt] query, eg: https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=goo...

chrisdevereux• 12 years ago

I wonder if searching for "onScroll" in 10 years will trigger a similar easter egg.

batmansbelt2• 12 years ago

People will probably still be using mice for input. It won't be all swiping by 2014. The nice thing about a mouse is that it requires very little effort. It takes a lot more muscle movement to perform a swipe.

chc• 12 years ago

That depends. For scrolling, yes. For moving the cursor, I find I need a lot less muscle use on my trackpad than my mouse.

spyder2• 12 years ago

I think he means that lot of the new website designs change the scroll behavior because they think it's cool (just like <blink> was), but they make the user experience worse in most cases.

m_st2• 12 years ago

Funny. But my favorite is still "do a barrel roll": https://google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll

jgroome2• 12 years ago

Might as well remind everyone of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_hoaxes_and_easte...

thatjoist• 12 years ago

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=recursion

Did you mean: recursion

Systemic33• 12 years ago

This combination is really evil: https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt#q=ocd

pliu• 12 years ago

Works on a phone too. "ok google, do a barrel roll".

vladimir-vg• 12 years ago

Also "tilt" query

smegel• 12 years ago

Am I the only one not getting this? Is it supposed to make me want to blink along with it? What's the point?

deadfish• 12 years ago

You are either too young or not a web developer :D

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

philbarr• 12 years ago

I'm guessing, "too young".

"Eeh...back in my day, it were blink and marquee tags as far as the eye could see. We were doing web development for below minimum wage back then you see, and every hour, our cruel overlords would drag us out of the basements in which we worked and beat us. CSS?! HTML Tables it was in MY day lad!! Didn't 'ave none of this fancy styling business. We were at the HTML coal face then, yer see! Don't know yer born you young 'uns...."

etc.etc.

danielweber• 12 years ago

In today's edition of How To Feel Old: there are some professional web developers younger than <blink>.

jgroome2• 12 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

m_st2• 12 years ago

This query shouldn't work in Firefox 23+, no? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

DangerousPie• 12 years ago

It's not actually a blink tag but CSS:

    em {
    animation: 1s steps(1, end) 0s normal none infinite blink;
    }

richardwhiuk• 12 years ago

Marquee likewise is not implemented using the <marquee> tag.

hpaavola• 12 years ago

https://www.google.com/search?q=ling+rush

eglover2• 12 years ago

Fun game!

jagga• 12 years ago

very fun game!!!

ArcticCelt• 12 years ago

Can I fight back?

_archon_• 12 years ago

Click on the o's.

sp332• 12 years ago

Yes, if you click them it keeps track of your kills and actions-per-minute (APM) :)

grimtrigger• 12 years ago

Ha, at first I thought I was being attacked by Opera's logo

dangliar• 12 years ago

So, that's what all that brainpower is doing at Google (that and build military robots to kill people).

dyml• 12 years ago

That escalated quickly..

Cthulhu_• 12 years ago

1. blink easter egg 2. the Terminator blinks (or doesn't, I forgot) 3. GOOGLE IS SKYNET

kps2• 12 years ago

Explanation: A protestor at yesterday's Google I/O keynote shouted “you're all working for a totalitarian company that builds robots that kill people.”

eelke• 12 years ago

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

MrBuddyCasino• 12 years ago

But is it milspec (3 units on, 1 unit off timing)?

I can't tell from the pixels and the CSS. Required reading: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213625

riquito• 12 years ago

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%3Cblink%3E

I wasn't really expecting an easter egg, but was surprised to not find a single result about html. Does it strip any non alphabetic character?

nevi-me• 12 years ago

I did a \<blink\> trying to see what DDG would do, and it keeps sending me to some blinkfitness.com website. Anyone know what action backslashes add?

theon144• 12 years ago

Backlash as the first character means "Go to first result" :)

column• 12 years ago

a search for ("blink") does not return any result, however a search for (blink tag) does return very good results.

4k• 12 years ago

Sorry for being critical here, but are we all so easy to please that any random easter egg from google becomes top story on HN?

heeton2• 12 years ago

Well, yes. http://xkcd.com/1386/

jsahdeva• 12 years ago

Blinks this too https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=%3CMarquee%3E

heeton2• 12 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7948930

Unfortunate side effect of their incremental search system :P

gonehome• 12 years ago

This comes up occasionally, but the history of the blink tag and how it was created from a joke is actually pretty cool.

http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag

tempodox• 12 years ago

That page is a perfect example of Domestic Terrorism.

gulbrandr• 12 years ago

What?

vidyesh• 12 years ago

Try this <marquee>

https://www.google.com/#q=<marquee>

HenryMc• 12 years ago

<Flash> does the same.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=%3Cflash%3E

fmax30• 12 years ago

No it doesn't. It is only returning that because you have the q=%3Cblink%3C in your url followed by #q=%3Cflash%3C. ( so basically it is loading the blink page and querying for the flash keyword).

Try this url https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cflash%3E

Something more Interesting https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt#q=HackerNews

Foy• 12 years ago

Oh man... https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt#q=ling+rush&safe=off

btown• 12 years ago

Makes you wonder how much energy is used, and how much carbon is produced, by every frontend server for Google Web Search in every Google datacenter needing to (at the very least) do an extra string comparison for every search done.

rsynnott• 12 years ago

Compared to the power used by the client computers dealing with Google's increasingly heavy search pages? Pretty much nothing.

smackfu• 12 years ago

They clearly already have a very extensible framework to give different results page formats depending on the search term.

McDiesel• 12 years ago

It appears to be implemented in JS... so... none?

squigs25• 12 years ago

just add an extra node to their cluster

mrgriscom• 12 years ago

half expected this to be announcing google's competitor to slingshot/snapchat. left relieved.

kps2• 12 years ago

‘Blink’ is the name of Chromium's web renderer. http://www.chromium.org/blink

kevin818• 12 years ago

Someone should make a list of all the little tricks you can use on Google, or any other site for that matter.

dang• 12 years ago

A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7280783.

jankeromnes• 12 years ago

#old

Blink

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