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New Google Easter Egg
Go to the website, don't type anything and hit "I'm feeling lucky!", a counter appears. At first it looks like it's a countdown in seconds to new year, but it actually is running faster than seconds, so what could this be?
- jrbedard 17y agoIf they're seconds, they equals ~20.2 days. Seems like the 2010 countdown.
- joezydeco 17y agoYeah, it's exactly the # of seconds to 1/1/2010 in your local time zone.
- techiferous 17y agoBut the new year isn't until February 4th! That's when year R turns into year S. Currently we are in day X of month X of year R. http://alphabetclock.com/datetime.html http://alphabetclock.com/datetime.html
- naz 17y agohttp://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1745996+seconds+from+11th+december+2009+19%3A01+PST http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1745996+seconds+from+11... also http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+seconds+until+new+years+day http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+seconds+until...
- runevault 17y agoHm, apparantly this is not everywhere yet as I got the error saying that you have to put in a search for it to work. Sad
- ccarpenterg 17y agoTry this: http://www.google.com/ncr http://www.google.com/ncr
- runevault 17y agoThat worked, interesting. Especially since I was hitting .com (I'm in the USA).
- ugh 17y agoYou have to go to google.com.
- ccarpenterg 17y ago1727463 / (60 * 60 * 24) ~ 19 + 12 (today) = 31 = Happy New Year.
- codef0rmer 17y agoExact ans... great
- tdoggette 17y agoMaybe they've finally made javascript so fast that it distorts time itself.
- mahmud 17y agoSomeone here mentioned the Bubblemark[1], I forgot which thread, and I tested it myself: Javascript in Chrome and Firefox is faster than Flash or Flex. But slightly slower in Opera and Safari, and much slower in IE. All on x86, 32-bit Win XP. FWIW. -- [1]http://bubblemark.com http://bubblemark.com
- dryicerx 17y agoIf you look at the js source, it's until Date(2010,0,1) Guess someone at Big G is really looking forward to 2010
- mahmud 17y agoNo doubt, some googler is probably from planet Earth.
- dandelany 17y agoMaybe they're (also) counting down to the end of their code freeze? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/11/AR2009121101132.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...