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Posted by Andy Brown on 24 September 2012
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Google Tricks
Until someone told us on a course last week (thanks, Carys), we never realised that Google could do a barrel roll! That set us investigating ...
Google Gymnastics
As far as we can tell, these commands only work in Chrome (they definitely don't work in our versions of IE9 or Firefox):
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| Tilt | Tilts the screen slightly |
| Do a barrel roll | Rotate the screen 360 degrees (warning: induces nausea). |
Here's what tilting looks like:
The screen lurches slightly ...
Odd Maps
Walking directions from Rivendell to Mordor work in any browser:
Make sure you choose walking directions to see this ominous warning.
Odd Searches
Searching for binary, hexadecimal or octal shows the number of results in the relevant base (bit geeky, this one):
It's shorter in hexadecimal!
Searching for Zerg Rush gradually destroys your screen:
Apparently it's to do with a game popular in South Korea ...
One of our favourites - searching for recursion yields the following helpful suggestion:
Click on the link until you get the joke ...
Someone at Google has too much time on their hands with these suggestions:
Ho ho ... !
These are just a small sample of the ones we found most entertaining. You can see a full list here (although many of the ones listed no longer work).