Quick catch up: Google – the thing you use for words you can’t remember how to spell – will still be Google. It’ll just be owned by Alphabet, along with a bunch of other companies that previously fell under the Google umbrella. Read about it HERE.
POLITICO deputy media editor Alex Weprin discovered the easter egg, either operating on a whim or a solid knowledge of Google’s history of hiding gags just about everywhere. (i.e. swimming across oceans on Google Maps, barrel-rolling Google, etc.)
He delved into the abc.xyz source code (the delightfully appropriate URL of Alphabet), found it, and left instructions for the whole world to follow:
Step one: go to http://t.co/mK7lm118Ee Step two: click the period after “drone delivery effort. Step three: enjoy. pic.twitter.com/2y0HguSVSM
— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) August 10, 2015
If you follow his instructions, you’ll end up HERE – the website for fictional company Hooli, which features in HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley‘, and in a delightfully meta twist, is meant to represent Google itself.
OH, YOU.
There’s also this – slightly more NSFW, possibly unintentional – joke, noticed by Natt Garun at TNW News:
The letter blocks: they spell out MAD SEX. They may or may not be meant to.
Image: Adam Berry via Getty Images
