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New Google Easter Egg

36 points by ptn ↗ HN
Go to the website, don't type anything and hit "I'm feeling lucky!", a counter appears. At first it looks like it's a countdown in seconds to new year, but it actually is running faster than seconds, so what could this be?

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jrbedard
If they're seconds, they equals ~20.2 days. Seems like the 2010 countdown.
joezydeco
Yeah, it's exactly the # of seconds to 1/1/2010 in your local time zone.
runevault
Hm, apparantly this is not everywhere yet as I got the error saying that you have to put in a search for it to work. Sad
ugh
You have to go to google.com.
ccarpenterg
1727463 / (60 * 60 * 24) ~ 19 + 12 (today) = 31 = Happy New Year.
tdoggette
Maybe they've finally made javascript so fast that it distorts time itself.
mahmud
Someone here mentioned the Bubblemark[1], I forgot which thread, and I tested it myself:

Javascript in Chrome and Firefox is faster than Flash or Flex. But slightly slower in Opera and Safari, and much slower in IE. All on x86, 32-bit Win XP.

FWIW.

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[1]http://bubblemark.com

dryicerx
If you look at the js source, it's until Date(2010,0,1)

Guess someone at Big G is really looking forward to 2010

mahmud
No doubt, some googler is probably from planet Earth.