Various Easter eggs can be found on popular websites like Yahoo!, Google, and Facebook. Tricks include yodeling on Yahoo!, using Google as a calculator, and typing in codes for hidden functions.
If you click the exclamation mark on the Yahoo! home page, you’ll hear the message “Yahoo!” yodel. Yodeling is one of thousands of “Easter eggs” appearing everywhere from Facebook to Flickr to Google. For example, if you type “answer to life, the universe and everything else” into Google, without the quotes, the first result will say “answer to life, the universe and everything else = 42” – a tribute to the author Douglas Adams. You can also google in Klingon, Elmer Fudd language, and Pirate language.
Other computer tricks:
You can flip the computer screen on a Windows PC using the CTRL+ALT+Down key combination.
You can use Google as a calculator by simply typing equations into the search bar.
If you want to Google a word and its synonyms, put a ~ before the word.
If you type “pv zk bschk pv pv zk bschk zk pv zk bschk pv pv zk bschk zk bschk pv pv bschk bschk kkkkkkkkkk bschk” into Google translate, then translate from English to German, you will be treated to some beatboxing.
The Konami code – up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a – also activates a number of functions hidden throughout the web. If you type this while using Google Reader, the screen turns slightly blue and a ninja descends. If you do the same on the BBC’s Glow site, you’ll see a K-9 photo of Dr. Who.
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