Easter eggs at Google and Firefox
July 25th, 2009 | by Sean |It was my birthday a few days ago, so I told everybody that I was now “The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything”. If you’re not familiar with Douglas Adams‘ book (or the BBC TV serialisation) “The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy“, that probably won’t mean anything to you. Google has the answer though:
Google: The Answer to Life The Universe and Everything
I made a mistake typing a comment on a blog recently and asked
Is this question recursive?
I did start considering the question, but gave up very quickly after
Is “Is this question recursive?” recursive?
Google has some help available to those searching for help on recursion:
Google: Recursion – did you mean Recursion?
Although I notice just now Google has decided it’s not funny any more 🙁
Firefox about:robots
And finally, in case Google decides to take its toys home and not let you play with them (where’s the recursion thing gone?), Firefox can help you pass some time with its helpful embedded page about robots:
If your browser isn’t as funny as Firefox, I recommend you change browsers, or look at the picture. Ten points are available for anyone who knows where all the quotes are from.
I see (27th July 2009) that the Google search for ‘recursion’ is doing what I expected, after a short break. Perhaps they should have a special page for ‘unreliable’ that occasionally returns no results…