Happy New Year!

Google put another easter egg out that when you click "im feeling lucky" with no query you saw a countdown until today when you see this cool happy new year animation

ive immortalized the page... Google 2009 New Years Egg

Click here to see a video of the countdown...


Edit:
there wasn't much meat to the post so i thought id add some more easter eggs i was able to round up. programmers will leave little tricks or games hidden in the code. eventually through word of mouth these secret codes get released and become part of public knowledge. Google as a bunch of hidden secrets here are just a few...

Here are a bunch of different flavors of Google search

• Hacker Google
• Klingon Google
• Pirate Google
• Bork Google
• Elmer Google

Some neat things for the calculator to tell you

• Number of horns on a unicorn
• Once in a blue moon
• The answer to life, the universe, and everything

Google search for ascii art (ascii google logo)

Google search for recursion

Translating the word table from spanish to english

Google Special Searches (like the one for uncle sam)

Teddy Bears in Picasa
In Picasa: Just Press Ctrl + Shift + Y to see them appear!

Google Earth Flight Simulator:

To enter the flight simulator mode, press Ctrl + Alt + A ( + Option + A on the Mac).

here are the Google Earth Flight Simulator Shortcuts you will probably need them

so i subscribe to @mattcutts because im a nerd and i just saw his video here about how to get the google reader easter egg but its in a video so i thought id steal some thunder and make the post as text so here it is. while on reader the code is

up up down down left right left right b a

i made an animated gif if you dont get it (feel free to steal it)
it then makes this way cool changes like hearts for your like buttons and then does cool animations when you click them its kinda geeky fun. you also get the bonus of a reader ninja to watch over your rss items which will all read to contain 30 items a homage to the original contra cheat

if you unlike it breaks your heart
but if you do like it you get bunches of love :)
and a cool ninja


Edit II:
happy Halloween!
We have a new easter egg hidden in Google now for Halloween its at the bottom of the robots.txt hook here at

Bottom of Google's robots.txt (google changed it back this is a mirror) you can also see google's robots.txt change log

Disallow: /voice/media/
Disallow: /voice/shared/
Disallow: /app/updates

User-agent: Kids
Disallow: /tricks
Allow: /treats

Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/profiles-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.google.com/hostednews/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: http://www.google.com/ventures/sitemap_ventures.xml

Edit III: its my birthday dec 18!

i logged into my google profile page and found this egg myself
so be sure to check your page on your b-day... they are allot smoother when you see them i just animated some screenshots

if anybody knows any other google easter eggs id love to add them to this list