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Do a barrel roll - Google Search
- EwanToo 15y agoOnly works in Chrome or Firefox, pretty fun :)
- andrewpi 15y agoWorks in Safari too.
- ThePinion 15y agoand Midori
- huhtenberg 15y agoand Lynx, but with just 4 frames the animation is a bit choppy
- hopeless 15y agoAnd on the iPhone. Impressive.
- jcsalterego 15y agoDoesn't for me in 5.1.1 (6534.51.22) or the latest WebKit nightly.
- andrewpi 15y agoStrange, I'm on 5.1.1 (7534.51.22) and it's working here.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- iliis 15y agoNah, my Chrome crashes ^^ (Version 15.0.874.106 on 64bit Fedora)
- VanceRefrig 15y agoThats super cool!
- roryokane 15y agoFor those who aren’t using a compatible browser: right after the page loads, a screenshot of your view of the page rotates 360° as if in a barrel roll. The page is then a normal, functioning Google results page.
- miahi 15y agoIt's not a screenshot, it's the actual page that rotates - you can click the links during the roll.
- crocowhile 15y agotilt works on opera but the barrell roll does not.
- ot 15y agoNote the bug: "do a barrel roll" skyrocketed at the top of the suggestion lists for "do a ". So if you have Google Instant enabled, just typing "do a " will instant-search "do a barrel roll" and trigger the effect. I'm sure this wasn't intended.
- felideon 15y agoI wonder if the barrel roll effect was intended for a Google Image search on "do a barrel roll" as well. The effect is much more prominent -- and annoying since you see the effect every time you navigate back. (I hadn't seen the meme, so I was browsing for images on it.)
- ot 15y agooh yes and it is completely broken on Google Images, at least on my browser (Chrome): a few elements are misplaced during the animation, and it looks like the center of rotation is not the center of the page.
- gacba 15y agoActually, according to a recent Google blog post, this is exactly what should happen for hot trending searches. They tweaked the algorithm to make hot search topics bubble up in the suggestion box and return relevant results for recent news.
- InfinityX0 15y agoAlso: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=tilt https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=tilt
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- hkmurakami 15y agoCompared to the barrel roll, perhaps less funny and more annoying. However, equally nerd-heart-warming :)
- InfinityX0 15y agoAs far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion
- lurch00 15y agoAs far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion
- tiwilliam 15y agoAs far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion
- 9ec4c12949a4f3 15y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3193544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3193544
- pud 15y agoAs far as Easter Eggs go, also: https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=recursion
- gerrit 15y agoNice, but I wonder how much money Google are losing delivering the animation code for this easteregg with every results page, on the off-chance that someone types this query. I couldn’t find any sign of dynamic code loading in a cursory glance in the web inspector. Google Search’s source code is otherwise ruthlessly optimised for bandwidth savings.
- mweimer 15y agoIt's done with CSS: body { -moz-animation-name: roll; -moz-animation-duration: 4s; -moz-animation-iteration-count: 1; -o-animation-name: roll; -o-animation-duration: 4s; -o-animation-iteration-count: 1; -webkit-animation-name: roll; -webkit-animation-duration: 4s; -webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1; }
- deepkut 15y agoI didn't know this existed -- CSS3? No javascript at work here? I didn't look at the web resources myself but I'm curious
- hkmurakami 15y agoWhatever money they're losing on this, they're probably regaining in terms of PR (which is much needed after their bad-karma with users lately with reader/gmail), and hence long term revenue.
- Alexx 15y agoIt's a CSS3 transform. Code to the client is no more than a few bytes.
- scottyallen 15y agoNot to worry - this code is only included for this query. I can guarantee you this easter egg wouldn't have shipped if it had required supporting code to be present on every query, for the reasons you mentioned.
- underwater 15y agoIt's a CSS transition in an inline <style> block. I imagine it's inserted dynamically with the results. body { ... -webkit-animation-name: roll; -webkit-animation-duration: 4s; -webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1; }
- bawigga 15y agoAnd wasn't there just a post about easter eggs being a thing of the past? Thanks Google for adding a little bit of fun to your product!
- hkmurakami 15y agoHappy to find that there's still a little humor left in the corporate world :) It's probably a good publicity/user-karma boost that this has come out at this timing, right after the recent debacles with Gmail, Google Reader, and the iOS Gmail app. Definitely leaves me feeling warm and fuzzy inside!
- pcestrada 15y agoI was hoping 'do a loop' did something as well.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- ffsdfsdfsda 15y agoAnd Google is why you are fat. Type in "this is" and it finishes with "why you are fat".
- hammock 15y agoAlso try "tilt" http://www.google.com/search?q=tilt http://www.google.com/search?q=tilt
- moskie 15y agoThis made me choke on my coffee.
- johnnytee 15y agohttp://www.google.com/search?q=askew http://www.google.com/search?q=askew search for "askew" does the same thing as "tilt"
- swah 15y agoNo money for labs, but this...
- ori_b 15y agoLabs wasn't about money. It was about moving away from half baked unmaintained releases and towards producing products that the company would be willing to support properly.
- jasonkostempski 15y agoI read that as "moving away from half baked unanimated releases".
- jQueryIsAwesome 15y agoI can do this in 20 minutes, is just a little of CSS3 and an animate function (like the jQuery one)... so not so much money spent on this.
- ojeffmo 15y agofor those of you looking for a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLp7LXTSrfs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLp7LXTSrfs
- lutorm 15y agoNice. That's more of an aileron roll, though. A barrel roll has an accompanying corkscrew motion of your velocity vector along with the rotation.
- DannoHung 15y agoRight, but it's a reference to the game, where Peppy says, "Do a barrel roll", but the actual maneuver that you can perform is a very fast aileron roll.
- lutorm 15y agoFunny, I never heard of that game. (Maybe it's because I fly flight simulators where a barrel roll actually is a barrel roll... ;-P )
- AndyKelley 15y agoI'm not sure I would call Star Fox 64 a flight simulator. I would recommend that you play it though :-)
- ck2 15y agorevert to pre-2009 layout drats it didn't work http://i.imgur.com/Og9Jo.png http://i.imgur.com/Og9Jo.png
- jasonlgrimes 15y agoLove it!
- deano 15y agothis one always amused me - http://www.google.com/search?q=88mph*1.21+gigawatts http://www.google.com/search?q=88mph*1.21+gigawatts
- Timothee 15y agoWhat's the Easter Egg?
- program 15y agoIn the movie saga "Back to the future" the DeLorean time machine needs to travel at 88 mph and the flux capacitor needs 1.21 gigawatts of power in order to activate the time circuits.
- elliottcarlson 15y agoThere's still no Easter Egg on Google though - the search results for Back to the Future are there because they refer to those numbers.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- deano 15y agoI wouldn't call it an easter egg persay, I just find it funny it actually calculates it
- hackernews 15y agono such luck for "do the dougie".
- mdda 15y agoI'm assuming this is being noticed because of the recent ANA plane aerobatics : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunUFwyxsF0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunUFwyxsF0 (spoiler : plane landed safely).
- ajarmoniuk 15y agothat was centrifugal, not gravitational force
- verroq 15y agoCentripetal. Centrifugal force is imaginary.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- ajarmoniuk 15y agoCentrifugal is imaginary in a non-inertial reference frame (as the case is here), but is a "real" force otherwise. There was a discussion on this exact subject recently on Reddit (/r/askscience) which might be interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/m2b1t/how_fast_could_a_rock_planet_spin_before/c2xioo7 http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/m2b1t/how_fast_c... and the entry on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force
- bengl 15y agoYou can make this happen on any arbitrary page, just for fun. https://gist.github.com/1337458 https://gist.github.com/1337458
- thyrsus 15y agoNot working for me; I thought it might be https everwhere or the google https search option, but turning those off didn't produce the effect. Firefox 3.6.23 on Fedora 14.
- melling 15y agoA modern browser is required. Firefox 7?
- lanstein 15y agoWould be a good keyword to advertise on, startups!
- onwardly 15y agoThanks for the idea! Done.
- savrajsingh 15y agoIs this Google's response to Siri? :)
- endtime 15y agoYes, because easter eggs didn't exist before the iPhone 4S.
- TechStuff 15y agoa list of known Google Easter Eggs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_hoaxes#Easter_eggs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_hoaxes#Easter_eggs
- antichaos 15y agoAlso try "stationary" on Google. That easter egg works on all browsers.
- someone13 15y agoI don't get anything?
- tsm 15y agoWell, the webpage isn't moving, so...it's stationary.
- skeletonjelly 15y agoRight but where are the pencils and rulers?
- tsm 15y agoYou have to try "stationery" for that.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- ColinWright 15y agoNot working for me: Firefox 3.6.23 on Ubuntu.
- super_mario 15y agoYou need HTML5 browser like Firefox 7.
- Jeff_29 15y agoCoolest barrel roll in history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vHiYA6Dmws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vHiYA6Dmws I know this isn't the original intent of the post, but this occured at a make or break time in Boeing's history and turned out to be a launching point for the company. If anything had gone wrong, Boeing would probably not exist today, Interesting lesson in risk taking.
- mekoka 15y agoI just realized that such popular memes, contribute in eating away at Internet Explorer's market when they don't work on it. People who for months could not be bothered to even just upgrade to IE7 or 8, are now more than willing to download and install another browser, just to see google "do a barrel roll".
- melling 15y agoYep, an occasional HTML5 Easter Egg could nudge people to upgrade. How about a few written in WebGL?
- estel 15y agoNot that this couldn't have worked in IE9 (and Opera?) anyway if Google had used a few more CSS prefixes.
- Osiris 15y agoExcept that those people may not realize what's going on. When I checked the page in my default browser, Opera, I saw nothing (Doesn't work in IE 9 either). It wasn't until I read through the comments that I figured I should try it in Chrome. I suppose, however, that people that hear about it will probably have people telling them that it only works in Chrome. Once they do see it though, they may see what they are missing. I'm using WebGL on Google Maps and it's awesome. Now if they can just settle on a nice standard that works in every browser.
- baby 15y agoworks in Firefox btw ;)
- manojlds 15y agoIt doesn't work in Opera as well, and since I know Opera is an awesome browser, and such things do work on it if I "mask" it as Firefox, it only makes me avoid their services. One reason why I don't use Google+ at all is that the notifications don't work on Opera. But again, if I mask as Firefox, it work perfectly.
- kentf 15y agowhy is this news.
- james-fend 15y agoWorks on my iPhone.... niccceee
- moreorless 15y agoThe attention that this is getting is absolutely ridiculous. Do we not have anything better to do? :(
- sampsonjs 15y agoIf you haven't seen it already, this is relevant. And hilarious: http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5633958/star-fox-in-iraq http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5633958/star-fox-in-iraq
- diamondhead 15y agoGoogle's new design is completely blocked to the users of non-popular web browsers. As a user of my own fork of a webkit based browser, I only see the old Google since Google thinks that my web browser is not modern.
- bennysaurus 15y agoWhat are you sending in your HTTP headers?
- useflyer 15y agoThis technology was demo'ed by SpotCapitan.com on HN a few months ago. So is Google ripping off cutting-edge front-end engingeering from startups now?
- entangledvyne 15y agohttps://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=Z+or+R+twice https://www.google.com/search?pws=0&q=Z+or+R+twice works as well!!!! :D:D:D