The following is a list of April Fools' Day jokes, hoaxes, and various Easter Eggs in many of Google's products.
Google Search[]
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All Google searches listed here are case insensitive unless otherwise noted.
A Google web search for:
- "anagram" shows "Did you mean: nag a ram?"
- "define anagram" shows "Did you mean: nerd frame again?"
- These easter eggs work in other languages such as Spanish.
- "askew" causes the results page to be tilted, leaning down, left to right.
- "binary", "hex", "hexadecimal", and "octal" shows the number of search results in the respective numeral system.
- "bletchley park" shows the name of the attraction being decoded in the Knowledge Graph.
- "<blink>", "blink tag", or "blink html" includes samples of the blink HTML element in the results.
- "Christmas", "Hanukkah", and "Kwanzaa" will show decorations next to the search bar for each respective holiday.
- "Comic Sans" and "GeoCities" will show the page in Comic Sans.
- "conway's game of life" on a desktop browser generates a running configuration of the game to the right of the search results. The process can be stopped and altered by the user.
- "Chicxulub", "Meteorite", a meteor will land on the screen.
- "do a barrel roll" or "z or r twice" on a desktop browser causes the result page to do a Star Fox-style barrel roll.
- "drag queen", "gay pride", "homosexuality", "stonewall" and other LGBT related searches, at times of gay pride festival activity, causes the results page to have a rainbow-themed header.
- "Festivus" shows an image of the Festivus pole beside the search results and the message "A Festivus miracle!" next to the number of search results.
- "Gobble Gobble" leads to a Google Translate page where you can translate words into a "Turkey Language", which uses only the word "Gobble". It includes actual turkey sounds.
- "google in 1998" on a desktop browser will generate a layout similar to that of the Google home page used in 1998.
- "is google down" returns with "No".
- "<marquee>", "marquee tag", or "marquee html" will apply the marquee element to the results count at the top of the results.
- "recursion" includes a "Did you mean: recursion" link back to the same page.
- "zerg rush" causes an army of Google Os to attack and destroy the search results, which can be defeated by clicking on them. Once you are defeated, the Os form two Gs (GG), meaning "Good Game".
- "(Font name)" will change all words and letters in the results to the font searched



