Do a barrel roll! - An easter egg from google

[Anthony Abney]

wow, what next? type in "Terminator" and it downloads Skynet to your computer?

Oh shi-KILL ALL HUMANS!

 

[Puddleknock]

I saw this earlier, actually made a little yelp at first. I'm pretty pathetic.

 

[Rodrigo Girao]

Very nice. Although I tend to disregard post-SNES StarFox games as "not true StarFox".

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Seriously, open the google homepage on chrome, safari or firefox right now and type

"Do a barrel roll"

Sooooo, how was your trip to 4chan today sir ?

I wonder if 4chan or reddit found it first...

 

[newwiseman]

OMG that just made me type OMG that is awesome.

Edit* it doesn't work on Safari, stupid Mac.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Gotta admit, that was pretty cool. Now... to make this work all over the net... AND CONFUSE THE WORLD! MWHAHHA- *cough* well...

 

[diebane]

Barrel roll doesn't work for me for some reason, tilt however does.

Nice

Also: http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/

mfG diebane

 

[Raven's Nest]

Seriously, open the google homepage on chrome, safari or firefox right now and type

"Do a barrel roll"

Sooooo, how was your trip to 4chan today sir ?

I wonder if 4chan or reddit found it first...

I think it might have been reddit. I heard it from facebook personally.

 

[tg851]

im suprised noone has posted this yet

 

[easternflame]

i use Firefox, though when i start to type it automatically goes straight to search results after a few characters

Askew or tilt

 

[Shadows Risen]

Shouldn't find that as cool as I do, but it's pretty cool

 

[Unhappy Crow]

Tried it numerous times, didn't work.

And thank god for YouTube, I saw what it looked like. So I'm not missing much.

 

[XandNobody]

I know right!?

Apparently this has been surging through the social media sites for a few hours now, I wonder what google are up to...

Must be a plan to take over the world... Yup, gotta be.

Spoiler: Last panels...

That comic made my day, fyi.

Anyways, to the OT: The tilt thing was the most impressive one, as the website still bloody works like that. Seriously, scroll through the search, even go to other pages, still works perfectly. I mean, hell, the website previews still work, and are effected by tilt.

 

[Mr. Gency]

i use Firefox, though when i start to type it automatically goes straight to search results after a few characters

Try hitting enter or the magnifying glass button.

 

[WickedFire]

Their article on this makes me think ABC needs to hire better reporters...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/11/do-a-barrel-roll-google-channels-apple-and-nintendo/

 

[Wolfwood1203]

That was just awesome, and quite sad to realize that it was the highlight of my day...

 

[Ice Car]

That was awesome. I heard about it today from some friends.

Tis' awesome.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

GAAAAAAH!!! IT REFUSES TO DO ANYTHING FOR ME!

It literally jumps straight to the search results after I input even a "d"!

Tried it on Explorer, and firefox on both my computers. No dice.

I am a very sad panda.

 

[Queen Michael]

i use Firefox, though when i start to type it automatically goes straight to search results after a few characters

Me too, but when I kept writing it did what it was supposed to once the autosuggestions became "Do a barrel roll."

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

hahahahaha that was so cool! that so caught me off gaurd too xD