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Subtle Google easter egg

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http://www.google.com/search?&q=ascii+art the logo is really ascii text

It would be uniquely both funny and useful if searching for a font name changed your results to that font (unlike the Comic Sans easter egg here). Imagine if you wanted to know what search results would look like in BookmanMedium.

The css hack posted earlier on HN can do that though, so its not like its impossible.

That is what this did this morning... Googling 'Comic Sans' gave you all your results in Comic Sans. Looks like they have pulled it now.

Thank you, I thought I was missing something really subtle

I hope you're referring to CSS Pivot :)

These are some of my favorites:

* Metafilter: http://www.csspivot.com/49KP9

* Google: http://www.csspivot.com/p950v

* Bing: http://www.csspivot.com/tUxGe

[Edit] Pro-Android peut-être: http://www.csspivot.com/fh2V1 (!)

The Google one is broken for me, shouldn't it be five characters?

Thanks, is updated!

"I hope you're referring to CSS Pivot :)"

Absolutely, and congratulations are in order. Don't spend it all in one place :-)

Thank you! After the first submission on HN a few people joined the project and we are now a small team of developers and designers. We think we can build something really interesting and will definitely iterate and push it forward. Feedback is always welcome!

and http://www.google.com/search?q=arial ...oh, wait

I didn't get it, but then I realized that I don't have any of the MS fonts installed. Good riddance.

and http://www.google.com/search?q=helvetica

Disappointed by the lack of http://www.google.com/search?q=wingdings

I tried that a few times, before trying it on another machine. It helps to have a few fonts on your machine.

Anyone check the source?

    /*I liked Google better*/
    *{font-family:comic sans ms!important}
    /*before the fonts changed.*/

http://www.google.com/search?q=anagram

http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion

April Fool!

Checking HN for the first time in the day, I'm surprised the story from the http://searchengineland.com/for-april-fools-google-goes-comi... cluster that made it to the front-page was this one (no offense). And no other story from that cluster has been submitted as far as searchyc can tell.

Unless the joke's on me somehow..

What a rough day for bancomicsans.com to get hacked! Amusingly, they also give you a comic sans themed page if you search for 'Helvetica'

Search for "recursion" for a real egg :)

At the risk of sounding stupid, could someone explain this to me? I don't see it.

You search for "Comic Sans", the results display in the Comic Sans font.

Sounds less funny when you explain it :)

Ah, i must not have comic sans installed.

Thanks :)

The real question is: why were you searching for comic sans?

Subtle? Really?

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