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A Hidden Google Page [ACTUALLY WORKS]

google.com — Here is a hidden Google page that lets you search from it as well!

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  • oedenfield, on 10/12/2007, -10/+53weird
  • w9thwonder, on 10/12/2007, -26/+7Google must be in love with itself.
  • corevette, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50made in 2000
    • JorgeFL, on 10/12/2007, -24/+12Yeah, this is pretty old news. 6 years in "Internet time" is equivalent to about 92 years in real life time. Breaking news! Extra! Extra! The Titanic has just sunk in the middle of the Atlantic!
    • Stradenko, on 10/12/2007, -15/+7For what it's worth, the Titanic sank 94 years ago...but I'll give you credit for the comparison anyway, since you did say "about 92."
    • schleppo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@ JorgeFl:

      So with that logic, we shouldn't submit/digg any stories that weren't born yesterday? Age is not one of the of the bury criteria.
  • Elohir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6This and more here..

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2299
  • dziban303, on 10/12/2007, -18/+9Whats the point?
  • Anisty, on 10/12/2007, -22/+5older than time itself
  • PeterBassett, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The applet was written by Ken Perlin, of "Perlin Noise" fame apparently. Cool.
  • geminem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+53from the link Elohir posted above (just in case the page goes down or something)

    Here are some more themes from google:
    http://www.google.com/Easter/feature_easter.html (catch the eggs)
    http://www.google.com/heart/heart01.html (click and hold on the heart)
    http://www.google.com/heart/feature_cons.html
    http://www.google.com/mentalplex/

    And some "special" languages:
    http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/
    http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
    http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/
    http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
    http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/
  • eddr, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2It's not really a big deal - no digg - Google have used special holiday logos for ages. The only difference is that this one dates back to before they had their clean, uncomplicated style - I doubt you'd see a jumping heart on the Google home page these days.
  • boltsmb, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6wow, the worst google page EVER!
  • whiteguysamurai, on 10/12/2007, -25/+7it doesn't appear to be flash..
    I wonder what it is..
    • subbzzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Java Applet
    • hakrzcode, on 10/12/2007, -2/+68Are java applets so ancient now, that today's generation does not recognise them?
      hahaha
    • skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2The source seems to make no mention of Java though? All I see is a .GIF file....

      {IMG src="../logos/valentine_Feature.gif" width=471 height=95 border=0 usemap="#map1" alt="Google"}
      {MAP name="map1"} {AREA shape=rect coords="370,40,454,70" href=../about.html alt="All About Google" title="All About Google"}
    • subbzzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Uh? Javascript is NOT Java..

      This is the Java Code, which loads the Applet
      ‹applet code=Heart.class width=300 height=200›‹/applet›
    • macewan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3It's Java
    • macman06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@skyshock21

      {applet
      code=Heart.class
      width=300
      height=200}
      {applet>}

      duh
    • justice7, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3im not sure why you guys are modding him down

      he didn't say it was flash, he was just saying he wondered what it was. Not everyone is a techno geek like the rest of us ;P
  • googleking, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1http://www.adelaider.com/google/ has a list of all Google Stuff
  • weiran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The guy who created the applet: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

    He has a bunch of other cool applets on his site too.
    • MrFusion, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2Move along... nothing to see here
    • MrFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Hes also the guy who won an oscar for his work ont he visual effects for Tron. Also developed Perlin Noise. Quite a clever bloke, bit of an obsessive with bit shifts for perlin however, they make my head hurt.
  • frakassor, on 10/12/2007, -19/+1Well it looks like Google are not that web 2.0, are they?
  • Jens78, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24To shed some light on this, here's a comment from the author of the applet, which can be found on the homepage weiran posted:

    "Around Feb 2, 2000, I happened to be visiting Google to give a talk. Sergei Brin asked whether I had any little 2D interactive animated characters. So I showed him the heart. He got all excited and said that they had to put that up on the Google site for Valentine's day. The people who worked for him were very nervous about that idea. They had never used Java in a Google page before; what would happen if it crashed everybody's machine?

    But he was insistent, and fortunately I only used really safe early features of Java that run everywhere. So I reworked to visual design to fit in with Google's general aesthetic, and added some features. Notably, I added the feature that when the heart falls asleep it starts to dream "I love you" in twenty different languages.

    This also made some people at Google nervous; what if the phrase in, say, Urdu accidentally had a more carnal and inappropriate meaning? So they vetted all the phrases, and the Google heart went up on Valentine's day."

    source: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/heart/
  • jm1234567890, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Wasn't this a valentines day thing a long time ago?
  • noouch, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Ken Perlin FTW!
  • Kruston, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Owwwld News. There's loads of Old Google pages still running THAT ACTUALLY WORK. PSST AMAZING GOOGLE SECRETS!! Still I guess that's just part of the Google Buzz, which in itself is quite deserved: SECRET+GOOGLE+ANYTHING will always get to the front page :-)
    • subgeniusd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No problem with Opera. "Find" just goes right to silly love page.
      Oops...wrong reply
  • Casestheorm, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Woah. Instantly crashes Firefox on OS X while loading.

    Awesome.
    • jketterman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Instantly crashed Safari too... must be a bug with the applet.
    • muaddib420, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2switch to deer park build of firefox... worked fine for me lol
    • BasouKazuma, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yea, it almost crashed my firefox browser after i clicked "Find". But it just froze for 20 seconds and finally went to the page and unfroze.
    • t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Worked fine for me on Safari. Strange.
    • rideagain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2didn't crash mine. FF 1.5.0.7 on OSX
    • pacdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm using Firefox on OSX and I saw it. No crash here!
    • Casestheorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hehe I love how reporting that it crashes equals being dugg down.
  • Dotnetsky, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Yah "secret+google+xx" as well as "10 ways to xxx" or "the top 10 xxx" etc.
  • h00paj00, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Marked as "Lame"
  • mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The page would benefit from some strategically placed cute ponies.
  • macewan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It causes a lockup on an iBook if using Flock. Neat find though.
  • heli12, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4That's not secret. You could access it on Valintimes's Day 2000.
    • tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Sorry, that misspelling really hurts my eyes for some reason. It's "Valentine's" as in St. Valentine's Day
  • frankinla, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3YYYaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn...........


    Zzzzzzzzzzzzz... what? ... hmmm.... Zzzzzzzzzzzz
  • jonj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1old school!
  • humbled, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Six years old. (Actually, it's almost 7 years old.) Get around much? ;)
  • Zyk0tiK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1***** hidden, it's on the list of previous custom google headers, you click a bouncing heart which says "CLICK ME!" to get there, that's not hidden.
  • foobar5892, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2OMG!!!1123123!"§!"§!"SFSF§FSFE

    Who cares?
  • PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"...that lets you search from it as well!"

    What google page can't you search from?
  • illegal, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0this is so gay :(
  • lamestory, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2all 1200 people who dug this are flamers
  • Alpinesol, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Ken Perlin, (the guy who made the heart applet) is a professor at NYU who makes all kinds of cool visual applets. For more, check out his page: mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin
  • myophp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0LOL, that is crazy. Is that considered an easter egg?
  • combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Wasn't this a tiny part of the story that was posted recently about ALL of the Google special pages? Lame, marked as spam.
  • uownedge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Cool! Google makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :)
  • lyononline, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0And here is an other top 20:
    http://www.google-stories.com/en/top-20-google-pages-youve-never-seen/
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