Along with developing and acquiring applications continuously, the team at Google also exemplifies a sense of humor – for those with the time and energy to search for it. Here are a few favorites:

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No, that’s not a typo. Look closer, it’s actually Google in reverse. The significance of this is rather simple: it’s the name of a Web site that mirrors the Google homepage, with everything on the familiar Google homepage backward. Even better, use the search engine like you would normally, and your search results come back in reverse as well. Teews!

Check it out: elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi

Google: Elmer Fudd

At first glance, it looks strikingly similar to the basic Google homepage. However, instead of ‘Google Search,’ the option is ‘Google Seawch.’ And ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’? Yes, it’s now ‘I’m Feewing Wucky.’

Check it out: google.com/intl/xx-elmer/

Other revamped Google homepages: Google Devil (google.com/bsd); Google Linux (google.com/linux) and Google Leetspeak (google.com/intl/xx-hacker/)

Google Maps

For such a well-regarded service, it’s somewhat surprising that Google would mess around with its application that maps out every street in the United States, and parts of Europe. Even so, when feeding the service a starting point and end point – from let’s say New York, N.Y., to London, England – scroll through the results and you’ll find one peculiarity at driving instruction No. 23. Without using an airplane, Google Maps recommends quite the alternative.

Check it out: maps.google.com

Published on April 2, 2007 at 12:00 pm