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Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”
- ipsum2 6y agoSource code (HN removed the emojis) <div class="LHJvCe"><div id="result-stats"><div class="resultMarquee"> </div></div></div>
- gallego2007 6y agoLooks like it’s desktop only. On mobile I had to toggle on ‘Request desktop site’ to see the ships scrolling across the top of the search results. Cute Easter egg lol
- floatrock 6y agoToss in some requirements about encoding compatibility, javascript, etc., sprinkle in presumably a couple layers of PMs, and I'm curious how close to EnterpriseFizzBuzz [0] the implementation of a simple hack like this actually is. [0]: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
- mycodebreaks 6y agowhy is this on HN frontpage? EDIT - I only mean to say that Google showing this animation is mildly interesting, but there other are far more interesting stories.
- jffry 6y agoFrom the HN Guidelines, visible at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and linked from the bottom of each page: > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. [...] > In Comments [...] > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did."
- MikusR 6y agoOther fun things to search: emacs, vi, recursion.
- statenjason 6y agoMakes me wonder if anyone suggested Ever Given "do a barrel roll"[1] [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll
- Apocryphon 6y agoIt's got a real Geocities marquee vibe to it, as all Easter eggs should.
- SilverRed 6y agoI wonder how much maintenance and testing these things add. Sure it would be trivial to get it working now, but they must have to do so many checks to see its not breaking on other browsers and then that it doesn't cause issues in the future.
- comboy 6y agoHaha, are you kidding me? Using firefox try cilcking pause button in bottom left on youtube, then hitting space to play it (event is handled twice, video will only play fraction of second). It's been like that for .. 5 years +? With google photos / gmail / hangouts it's like Google is trying to actively discourage you from using anything other than Chrome by giving you just enough bugs to make you really annoyed but avoid being labeled as completely broken. They should have it all working flawlessly at their scale, given amount of data they can collect and amount of communication they are providing about the issues. I'm stopping before going further because I don't want to do the standard google keyword present let's do some bitching, but I wish Google put could 1/5 of the effort they are putting into making their core infrastructure rock solid on user experience in their products. Despite providing ff as an example it's not like having no issues when you run everything Google.
- shadowgovt 6y ago> They should have it all working flawlessly at their scale Insufficient economic incentives. Firefox is ~4% of the installed base for web browsers (as per externally-visible metrics). The priority for bug fixing is going to look something like Chrome -> Chrome (mobile devices) -> Safari -> Safari (mobile devices) -> Edge -> Firefox. ... additionally, if the same behavior works correctly in Chrome, Safari, and Edge, it unfortunately indicates it's more likely to be a standards-noncompliance bug on Mozilla's side than an error in the YouTube implementation. EDIT: Specifically, it might be this bug. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487102 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487102
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- DoreenMichele 6y agoWhatever our criticisms of Google, it's part of our internet culture in sometimes weird and wonderful ways. This seems kind of like a little happy dance for the world after so much hand wringing and legitimate worry.
- warent 6y agoI'll be the cynical one this time and say that I'd rather carefully calculated PR stunts didnt have an affect of making corporations seem more fun and human. Sociopaths wear all kinds of convincing masks
- JimBlackwood 6y agoWhatever cynicism, it doesn’t take away that this is just a fun thing to do. I wonder if maybe Google employs humans that like things that are fun?
- Shorel 6y agoIt is both things of course, to different people. It is something fun to do for the coders who implemented the animated ships, and most of the people who see them. Likewise, it is a calculated PR stunt by the executives who approved the release.
- ithkuil 6y agoOr even better: a calculated decision to create a culture where people who are not executives can approve a release that ultimately functions as a PR stunt, without requiring everyone involved to necessarily see it that way. It scales much better
- DoreenMichele 6y agoEvery last one of us is a potential bad actor. This is why the enlightened self interest metric was such a big deal to introduce and why we have myriad traditions for trying to curb our tendencies, such as the Christian idea of "Lead me not into temptation." Finding systems to plug individuals into that have some hope of doing good for both them and others is our only hope of making a world with nearly 8 billion people function at all sanely.
- runarb 6y agoLooks like it only work on desktop. (“Request desktop site” in Chrome mobile works).
- loloquwowndueo 6y agoGee I’m glad to see their real issue backlog is now empty so they have time to do this kind of bandwidth-wasting, cycle-sucking garbage.
- robbiet480 6y agoBarely bandwidth wasting since they're using the official ship emoji vs shipping an image.
- toomanybeersies 6y agoTo be specific, the entire `<div id="easter-egg">...</div>` that this is contained in adds an additional 158 bytes to the compressed response.
- sub7 6y agoYeah these things no longer cover up the fact that they try to turn you into a serial killer on youtube or that your search results are mostly useless ads
- jsjabsvsjs 6y ago> Easter eggs can be a way for software engineers and designers to put a bit of their own personality into the product through humor and wit. They're a way of saying, 'I made this and I love it.' Their hidden nature means that those who discover them are likely to be people who spend a lot of time using the product. > This act of discovery is great for building an emotional connection between the people who create software products and the people who use them. Finding an Easter egg is a great experience — like finding buried treasure — and sharing that experience can be fun, too. It's a little gift for true fans that goes a long way towards making people feel like they're part of the club. https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-gb/advertising-channels/search/hidden-meaning/ https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-gb/advertising-chann... Wikipedia has a massive list of Google's Easter eggs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs
- 2bitencryption 6y agobut let me ask, in this day and age, on google.com, the most visited website on the planet and the most venerable of all Google's properties (it is the face of their trillion(?) dollar company)... ...do we really think this was a fun little easter egg from a software engineer having some fun over lunch? I imagine that could have been the case in the mid 2000's. But the front page of google? surely there were meetings over this, multiple reviews, lawyers, etc? Or am I just too cynical?
- Craighead 6y agoToo cynical
- zaphar 6y agoI worked on the front page at google around 10 years ago. It was all those things you describe back then too. And at least then there were not multiple reviews/meetings or lawyers involved in releasing something like this. If it's still the same then this probably started as a lunch time conversation and was implemented before lunch the next day.
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- lvs 6y agoIt's just sliding squares in Chrome, but ironically it works in FF. I must be missing a font that FF provides?
- nabakin 6y agoIf you guys enjoy easter eggs, you might like to know about the easter egg subreddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/eastereggs https://old.reddit.com/r/eastereggs Full disclosure: I own/run it. Sorry if there are posts about Easter. Our automod config works pretty well but some posts leak through this time of year ;)
- nunez 6y agoGoogle still has a soul!
- thinxer 6y agoOn the first sight I fired up Developer Tools to check the banner is *not* <marquee>.
- anonytrary 6y agoThese ships also trigger for "did you mean" searches. So, for example, search for "ever givne" or "ever gaven". Google's engine will start "Showing results for ever given". That must mean that the ships are applied after the query is resolved. Clicking "Search instead for ever givne" will take you to the original query's result set which will no longer contain ships.
- jariel 6y agoThe home page of Google still gives you the option to 'Search' or 'I'm feeling Lucky' even in 2021.