[HN Gopher] Batman easter egg (click the bat signal)
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Batman easter egg (click the bat signal)
Author : simonpure
Score : 131 points
Date : 2022-07-23 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.google.com)
| whereisanykey wrote:
| ... but i always thought Robin laid an egg?
| ribs wrote:
| Looks sharp on iOS Safari
| [deleted]
| O__________O wrote:
| Batman, please save Google's search quality!
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| It'd be great if Google would fix all their broken crap instead
| of wasting their resources and my bandwidth with these useless
| stunts.
| sillyquiet wrote:
| Whatcha mean useless? There's some serious SEM money behind
| that from AT&T/Warner/whatever. I am sure Google is enjoying
| the sales revenue.
| [deleted]
| golergka wrote:
| This makes me miss the 00s, where these easter eggs and Google
| doodles still felt as something authentic and representing the
| true Google spirit.
|
| Now I just see it as something that has been vetted in three
| different meetings by a dozen product owners who are only
| concerned by climbing a corporate ladder.
| overgard wrote:
| I don't know, maybe it's less authentic, but it's fun that at
| least it's still in the DNA of the place. Credit where it's
| due, even if it's not the same as in the past
| ffhhj wrote:
| Reading the comments on this easter egg not working for some
| makes me wonder if it's been A/B tested as every other feature
| nowadays. We are really approaching a Schrodinger's digital
| age.
| highwind wrote:
| Nothing happens on Firefox Mobile on Android.
| VoidWhisperer wrote:
| Seconding this - does it just not show up on firefox mobile
| or..?
| DoktorDelta wrote:
| It works with the "Google Search Fixer" extension for mobile
| FF
| nabakin wrote:
| Works for me. I'm using the nightly version though. Maybe that
| makes a difference? Icon appears at the top right below the
| search bar.
| teekert wrote:
| Does work on FF on iOS but of course that is not really FF.
| mysterydip wrote:
| Works on safari on iOS, for what it's worth.
| jvdvegt wrote:
| I don't see anything special with Firefox on Android, not logged
| in to Google :(
| anakaine wrote:
| Works on Brave. Takes a couple of seconds to start.
| chao- wrote:
| Same. Firefox on Android. It just takes me to the image preview
| page.
| someweirdperson wrote:
| enable "desktop site"; the signal appears in the box on the
| right.
| lstamour wrote:
| What you're supposed to click on is an animated bat signal
| light that rotates and lights up yellow. It's in the upper-
| right corner of the image carousel in the search results. If
| you click an image, it'll take you to the image preview, but
| that's not the Easter egg.
| Maursault wrote:
| I don't see any preview when I click the bat signal.
| Instead, page turns a reverse shade scheme, then a
| silhouette of The Batman ropes and swings across the page
| over the content. That's pretty much an Easter Egg.
| Arnavion wrote:
| lstamour is suspecting that chao- clicked on an image
| preview link above the infocard because they didn't /
| couldn't see the bat signal image.
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| on my FF developer on mac it is in the bottom right corner
| of the image carousel.
| ldjb wrote:
| It works on Firefox Android if you install the Google Search
| Fixer add-on.
|
| https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/google-search-fixer
| internetter wrote:
| Noah get the boat...
| BbzzbB wrote:
| Oh jeez, the only reason I had to keep Chrome on my phone
| (besides not being given a choice by Google) was to look up
| stocks as Firefox didn't display them with the full
| card/chart (even tho it was obviously a predatory measure by
| Google rather than a limitation of Firefox Mobile).
|
| What a blessed day. I missed the general cards and synopsises
| Google made for some searches but couldn't be bothered to
| change browser (and watch ads) for them (aside from stock
| charts).
| mFixman wrote:
| "This add-on is not available on your platform".
|
| Am I missing some way to install more add-ons on Firefox for
| Android?
| ldjb wrote:
| If you open the kebab (three vertical dots) menu, select
| Add-ons then Add-ons Manager, you should see a list of add-
| ons you can install.
|
| Edit: I've updated my previous comment with a better link.
| closewith wrote:
| These kind of Easter eggs were way more endearing when Google
| wasn't the incumbent monopoly powering the surveillance economy.
| thombat wrote:
| And you could kid yourself that it might just be a labour of
| love from a single engineer, rather than the product of a
| marketing team responding to quarterly strategic product
| directives triggered by engagement metrics.
| echelon wrote:
| I feel like Google could be "easily" defeated (for a tech
| titan).
|
| Step 1: get antitrust regulators to break up the
| search+advertising business from Chrome+Android products. Don't
| let Google favor Google products.
|
| Step 2: build a better search engine. Can't be hard with all
| the crap results that Google returns now. If Chrome and Android
| no longer default to Google, a new engine could grow and
| thrive.
|
| Even the EU taking action could begin to chip away at this
| monopoly.
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| Ok, but this is currently on the front page of HN
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32205535 "Why Writing
| Your Own Search Engine Is Hard (2004)"
| ImJasonH wrote:
| OTOH, 2004 was a long time ago, and a lot has changed.
|
| That article could be a college freshman in the fall.
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| >OTOH, 2004 was a long time ago, and a lot has changed.
|
| evidently from discussion of the article not for the
| better.
|
| >That article could be a college freshman in the fall.
|
| evidently not
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Patterson - also do
| college freshmen get articles in the ACM?
|
| on edit: misunderstood witticism regarding age of the
| article to mean that it could have been written by a
| college freshman - didn't understand why 'in the fall'
| but now I get it.
| oliveshell wrote:
| No one said anything about the article's author. The
| parent commenter was remarking on the age of the article
| itself, which was published in 2004 and therefore turns
| 18 this year.
| bryanrasmussen wrote:
| ok thanks.
|
| on edit: have edited my comment to take this into
| account.
| mongol wrote:
| Step 2 is ripe for the right competitor. When Google entered
| the search engine market, it blew people away by providing
| incredibly relevant results, compared to the competition. You
| would be hard pressed to say the same today. However, the
| same quality of results can still be achieved, I am quite
| sure. It is "just" a matter of figuring out how, and
| executing on it. Given how Google found success, I think it
| is actually just a matter of time until a new challenger
| makes their entrance.
| [deleted]
| mongol wrote:
| Agreed. I don't know what to make of this. Is it marketing, the
| result of developer creativity or the outcome of an A/B-test,
| and why do Google search result quality go downhill so quickly?
| nabakin wrote:
| If anyone is interested in more of these kinds of easter eggs, I
| run a subreddit for them at https://reddit.com/r/eastereggs
| overgard wrote:
| Oh man, that's fantastic. I love it when companies can keep their
| sense of humor
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