Google offers Easter eggs, including a tilted “crooked” search page and an “askew” page with slanted icons. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started with the web crawler “Backrub” and created the Google Doodle in 1998.
Everyone can laugh a little once in a while, so when you’re done reading this article, do a Google search for the word “crooked.” Sure, the page you land on will be filled with a bunch of dictionary sites offering their definitions, but it’s not so much the content that matters; it is creativity. Spoiler alert: The entire page will appear tilted to the right. Google’s silly gag is just one of many so-called Easter eggs that the search engine offers. In fact, on the “Askew” results page itself, you’ll see a link labeled “Enjoy the Askew Google! – elgooG.” Click that, and you’ll find yourself in a heavily slanted Google search page with a bunch of icons below the search bar, including one labeled “Gravity” and another labeled “Guitar.” You’ll have to see for yourself what clicking on the icons will reveal – we’ve already revealed enough. Suffice to say, the folks in Mountain View, California, who are always busy improving the world’s most popular web search engine, love to add surprises to their work. It probably all ties into what Google co-founder Larry Page once said: “Always offer more than you expect.”
Enter Google:
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met when Brin was commissioned to showcase Page on the Stanford University campus.
Page and Brin’s first collaborative effort was dubbed “Backrub”; the web crawler, as it was called, had been around on Stanford’s servers for a little over a year.
The iconic Google Doodle started in 1998 when Page and Brin used a stick figure on their homepage to indicate they were attending the Burning Man festival.
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