New Google Easter Egg

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Go to the website, don't type anything and hit "I'm feeling lucky!", a counter appears. At first it looks like it's a countdown in seconds to new year, but it actually is running faster than seconds, so what could this be?

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1727463 / (60 * 60 * 24) ~ 19 + 12 (today) = 31 = Happy New Year.

Exact ans... great

If you look at the js source, it's until Date(2010,0,1)

Guess someone at Big G is really looking forward to 2010

No doubt, some googler is probably from planet Earth.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1745996+seconds+from+11...

also http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+seconds+until...

Maybe they're (also) counting down to the end of their code freeze?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...

Maybe they've finally made javascript so fast that it distorts time itself.

Someone here mentioned the Bubblemark[1], I forgot which thread, and I tested it myself:

Javascript in Chrome and Firefox is faster than Flash or Flex. But slightly slower in Opera and Safari, and much slower in IE. All on x86, 32-bit Win XP.

FWIW.

[1]http://bubblemark.com

If they're seconds, they equals ~20.2 days. Seems like the 2010 countdown.

Yeah, it's exactly the # of seconds to 1/1/2010 in your local time zone.

But the new year isn't until February 4th! That's when year R turns into year S. Currently we are in day X of month X of year R. http://alphabetclock.com/datetime.html

Hm, apparantly this is not everywhere yet as I got the error saying that you have to put in a search for it to work. Sad

Try this: http://www.google.com/ncr

That worked, interesting. Especially since I was hitting .com (I'm in the USA).

You have to go to google.com.

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