What happens: This most meta of Google Easter Eggs activates… an actual Easter egg. Searching the formula [1.2+(sqrt(1-(sqrt(x You might remember Bork! Bork! as a common refrain of The Swedish Chef on “The Muppets”. Note the menu options for “Imeges” and “Shoeppeeng”— bet you just read that in Chef’s voice! What happens: Google’s random number generator tool appears at the top of the search results. By default, it’ll generate a number between 1 and 10 but you can adjust the range to suit your needs. What happens: In 2013, a YouTube channel popped up and published thousands of 11-second videos consisting of red and blue rectangles with beeping noises. Mystified, the internet did its magic and conjured up everything from aliens to foreign spies in explanation for the channel. Careful… it’s loud! We left the sound off our video in case you’re supposed to be working, but if you play online you’ll get the full experience.

The calculator shows the result of “once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz.” 19. Green Hill Zone What happens: A metronome appears, enabling you to keep a beat from 40 to 218 BPM at the top of the search results. By the time Google finally revealed it was a testing channel, the legend of Webdriver Torso had taken on a life of its own. Even the BBC reported on it. Today, activate this Google Easter Egg and you’ll see an animated series of the iconic colored shapes to the left of the search box (on desktop). What happens: This one is cute. In programming, recursion is defined as“the process of defining a problem (or the solution to a problem) in terms of (a simpler version of) itself. For example, we can define the operation ‘find your way home’ as: If you are at home, stop moving.” What happens: Much in the same way as the “Fun Facts” Easter Egg above, Google randomly displays factoids you can flip through to satisfy your curiosity (and boredom, let’s be honest).How to trigger this Easter Egg: Type [what sound does a dog make] (without a question mark) into Google. What happens: The text showing the number of results will scroll from right to left like a real marquee. What happens: Trying to cook the perfect egg? Maybe you’re doing a writing sprint to get that blog post out the door. Either way, querying [timer] brings Google’s handy timer tool to the top of the SERPs.