Google’s Latest Search Easter Egg Lights Up Your Browser Ahead of Diwali

As India will get prepared for one if its greatest festivals of the 12 months — Diwali, Google has launched an Easter egg, or a hidden function, on its search engine to dive in to the spirit of the competition of lights. People who now kind ‘Diwali’ on the search will see an animated earthen lamp that’s already lit, as a part of the end result. Clicking on the standard ‘diya’ would trigger the display screen to darken as a number of earthen lamps float onto the display screen. Swiping the cursor over them would mild them up as effectively. The cursor, within the type of a lit diya, additionally exudes a yellowish flame round it wherever it’s made to maneuver on the display screen.

In a tweet through its Twitter account, the search engine large hinted at this shock function was rolled out in India. An Easter egg is an undocumented addition to software program that should be activated by the person to be seen or usable.

Screen-recordings of the floating earthen lamps on the Google search outcomes web page have been posted by customers on Twitter.

Once all of the animated lamps on display screen are lit, they prepare themselves to seem as a constellation made up of burning lamps earlier than vanishing from the display screen.

A virtually an identical function was rolled out by [Google(https://www.gadgets360.com/google)] in time for Diwali 2020.

Google usually treats its customers with quirky animations and hidden options that may be activated with particular key phrases.

If one was to seek for the characters of common sitcom sequence Friends, as an example, every search end result will present totally different floating animations.

For Chandler Bing’s character performed by actor Matthew Perry within the 1994 present, Google shows the iconic-to-the-show BarcaLounger. Clicking on the icon releases Chandler’s pet chick and duck from the present to tempo across the display screen.

For Monica Geller’s character, a soap-soaked sponge cleaner seems on display screen and wipes throughout it. In the present, Geller, performed by actress Courtney Cox, was obsessive about cleanliness, which seems to have impressed the hidden function on the search engine.