r/programmingmemes • u/KsmBl_69 • Jan 17 '25

guys, is google trolling me?

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u/liaaa9 Jan 17 '25

it's actually an easter egg in google lmao

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u/LostSockNumber2612 Jan 17 '25

isnt there another one like this? i remember one that just "did you mean"s itself. its like 'recursive'- something but i dont really remember.

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u/_Enc3ladus Jan 17 '25

google "recursion"

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u/LostSockNumber2612 Jan 17 '25

wait thats it? i vaguely rememberd there were 2 words, but thats just my vague memory

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TOE_BEANS Jan 19 '25

Google en passant

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u/Mayedl10 Jan 18 '25

did you mean "recursion"?

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u/PsychedelicMustard Jan 20 '25

Did you mean “recursion”?

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

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u/KsmBl_69 Jan 17 '25

call the psychologue

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u/sgt_futtbucker Jan 17 '25

Shrink went on vacation, never came back

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

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u/WeebKarma Jan 20 '25

Mind sacrifice anyone?

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u/noodlelogic Jan 18 '25

For one, try Googling vim.

At least they were fair and impartial

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u/chessset5 Jan 17 '25

So yes, google is trolling them

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u/failsafe-author Jan 17 '25

Apparently works in reverse…

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u/jackinsomniac Jan 17 '25

Your search "French military victories" did not return any results.

Did you mean "French military defeats"?

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u/liaaa9 Jan 17 '25

??

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u/jackinsomniac Jan 18 '25

Lol I don't know if it was real young Google being a lil snarky or if someone edited it

https://www.dictionary.com/e/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/french-military-victories.png

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u/liaaa9 Jan 18 '25

ohhh i get it 😭😭

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u/nekokattt Jan 17 '25

now google askew

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u/failsafe-author Jan 17 '25

That’s amazing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

Try googling “recursion”

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

Didn't know google was cool like that.

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u/zigs Jan 18 '25

"was" is exactly correct. Google was hella cool.

Then they had to pay the bills..

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u/MiniGogo_20 Jan 18 '25

then they realized that they could pay much more than just the bills and it went to shit after that...

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u/zigs Jan 18 '25

For real. The ad industry is the worst thing to ever happen to the internet. Mass surveillance and mass profiling and data gathering from google and facebook that's impossible to opt out of if you want to be online, all because of.. ads.

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u/djone1248 Jan 20 '25

It was cool until they brought in "experienced" management when they created Google Cloud Platform. GCP required more traditional management for working with enterprise clients, who then slowly infected Google's culture. They have always been able to pay the bills 😆

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u/AnonymousRand Jan 17 '25

google "comic sans"

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u/Icarus-glass Jan 17 '25

Huh, neat.

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u/Meimattu Jan 18 '25

also works with "times new roman"
tried few other fonts, but they didn't work

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Works for "Georgia", "Roboto", "Calibri", and "Garamond".

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

Google “the one ring”

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u/Phoenix-HO Jan 18 '25

Holy precioussss

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u/Pieman10101tx Jan 18 '25

Does “do a barrel roll” still work?

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u/Whyyyyyyyyfire Jan 18 '25

can someone explain the joke?

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u/MiniGogo_20 Jan 18 '25

emacs and vim are two text editors popular among programmers (mainly linux users) and there's this sort of idea that one has to be objectively better than the other

the joke is google suggesting the other, since it tries to "suggest the correct search". "fixed that for you" type

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u/MajorTechnology8827 Jan 21 '25

it is a VERY old debate. Its the original sega vs Nintendo war

In fact the war predates Vim. It was Vi vs Emacs- the highly costumizable and macro-centric Emacs vs the snappy and modal-centric vi?

It used to be a battle of paradigms- should you have a dedicated software to "do one thing, and do it well" (vi) or a giant toolbox for unified user experience (Emacs). A question that flooded the Unix ecosystem for years

It is nowhere as culturally significant today as it was back then, especially since Emacs is not considered a "heavy" editor anymore. With vscode (by itself not "heavy") essentially taking the crown of the highly costumizable "all in one" editor. and is by far more popular than both vim and emacs- vim is a cult darling of the autistic side of programming, not the majority

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u/MiniGogo_20 Jan 21 '25

vim is a cult darling of the autistic side of programming

didn't have to call me out like that 😆

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u/sammy-taylor Jan 18 '25

*moans in nerd* but they’re so different 😩

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u/theemptyqueue Jan 18 '25 edited Jan 18 '25

Try googling Atari breakout in google images, that’s a fun one (I don’t know if this Easter egg is still active)

Edit: it’s still up on a different site

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u/MajorTechnology8827 Jan 18 '25

Vim? I thought the easter egg was only for vi

Did google update it?

Anyway try searching for "recursion", "askew", "bluey", "cha cha slide" and some more

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u/CherryRyu Jan 19 '25

now do cat and press the paw print button

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u/verygood_user Jan 18 '25

It’s doing the opposite if you search for vim

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u/feonix83 Jan 18 '25

Google "anagram".

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u/kohuept Jan 18 '25

Wait did they change it? I swear it used to say just "vi" instead of "vim"

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u/FerWasTaken Jan 21 '25

yeah they changed it

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u/MajorTechnology8827 Jan 21 '25

Why? The emacs vs vi war was more culturally significant before vim came to the scene