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'Let It Snow' Google Easter Egg Will Frost Up Your Search Results



When searchers type "let it snow" into Google, their wish is the search engine's command.

Google's newest Easter Egg drops a flurry of snowflakes over the results page and quickly frosts up the screen when you query "let it snow." You can wipe away the frost by using your curser as an ice scraper or pressing the "Defrost" button, which appears in place of the blue "Search" button.

It was hard to imagine what Google would come up with after "do a barrel roll," a search goodie discovered by Google users in November. Here's how the Easter Egg works: When you query Google with the phrase "do a barrel roll", a reference to the 1997 videogame "Star Fox 64," the whole search screen would flip over like a fighter pilot executing an in-flight barrel roll in the wild blue yonder.

Of course, Google is no stranger to whimsy. The company has changed its logo over 1,000 times to honor special events such as artists' birthdays and lunar eclipses. Now, fans of these Google Doodles can even get them printed on t-shirts, skateboards and other items at the brand-new Doodle Store.

While you can't get "let it snow" printed on a Google-branded mug, you can check out this new Easter Egg in the images Linked], or head to Google.com to see it firsthand.

To see a slideshow of our favorite Google Easter Eggs, click here.

A spokewoman from the company sent the following statement about the Let It Snow trick in poem form:

Through the fog, you have to peer

Because it's the most wonderful time of the year

Your page turned into a winter wonderland

When you typed in that search command

You can always defrost the window

Or just let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Well, it's not a poetry house, but they do like to have fun.

Google has some other neat tricks up its sleave, and if your work is slow for the holidays, now might be a perfect time to try them.

1. Type in the word "askew" into the search engine. Tilt your head and enjoy.

2. Type in the word "tilt." Hold your head askew and enjoy.

3. Type in the word "recursion." Google will wonder if perhaps you meant to type the word "recursion."

4. Google didn't forget Jews. Type in the word "Hannukah" for some festive non-Christmas holiday screen decor.

5. Type in "anagram." Google will wonder if perhaps you meant "nag a gram."

Unfortunately, some of the Google classic tricks are no longer functioning. It used to be that if you typed in the words "Chuck Norris" you would get a statement that says, " You don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you."

LA Times