Google Trick

[Ann Maree]

Here's a magic trick to surprise friends with; go to the flash-based fake Google homepage by Dark Arts Media. Ask someone casually to watch the Google logo. Now click anywhere on the page while pointing at the logo with the other hand, and then move two of your fingers to completely cover the the 'o's in the Google logo. When you remove the fingers, hopefully to much surprise, the letters 'o' will be missing from the logo.

Whenever you click on the page, the letters will disappear after five seconds. Clicking again will make them reappear after five seconds. A third click will change the page to an actual Google homepage

Here is the link
http://darkartsmedia.com/Google.html

[GailS]

Ahhhh this is too cool :) My DH would catch on.....but would be fun on my grandkids ;)

[lvg4him]

Hey honey what's wrong with the google page? (I rub my finger over the two OO). They disappear. he says "ha ha" then checks the URL. I have seen that one before, he says and gave me THIS link for you to see.

This is a fun magic trick to fool your friends, colleagues or family.
Here’s how it appears to everyone around you:
• You open up Google Images and demand, “John, think of
something.”
• Your friend John says “I think of a yellow house.”
• You type “What is it that John thinks of?” into Google Images,
hit return, and boom – there are yellow houses in the results!
How It Really Works
Of course, neither Google nor you can predict the future or read your
friend’s mind (I assume!). So what’s really happening? Just how can
Google display yellow houses?
Because you told it to! The trick is incredibly simple: start by going to
the fake Google homepage (www.55fun.com/52). Now though it appears as
if you are typing “What is it ...,” you actually type a slash “/” first. This
starts hiding what you really type and replaces it with “What is it ...”. So
now, you type yellow house or whatever it is your friend mentioned.
Finally, hit the slash key again and you can continue to type normally to
enter the name of your friend or something similar.
Before you perform this trick in front of friends, make sure you practice
it a little. If you do, your friends will not suspect a thing.
Note that if your friends are very tech-savvy or easy to get suspicious,
you should replace the browser address – which reveals it’s not the real
Google – with the actual Google Images URL (without hitting return in
the address bar, of course, because you don’t want to leave the trick
page).

[DSanchez]

lol, I can't wait to try this on my kids tomorrow :)

[dapupsmom]

Hubby caught on immediately. :(

[lvg4him]

YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE URL!! Once you goto the above web page, be sure to change where the url goes to be the address for google but DON'T PRESS RETURN (or you WILL goto the google site). you just want it to APPEAR that you are at the google site.

[Clark2006]

So after you type the"/" a slash shouldn't actually appear right? Because it appears with me...:confused:

[Antiragweed]

I can't get it to work either, what I type shows up after the /

[Clark2006]

Me too!! :p

[k.lord]

a very nice deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Clark2006]

Is it working now?? I couldn't get it to work...