Google's Mysterious Clock

[Sushubh]

Google Iâm Feeling Lucky countdown timer to 2010

 

[honey01]

Google's countdown clock marks the seconds until Jan 1, 2010 - or is it the Googlephone launch?

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Google is expected to sell the Nexus One Googlephone direct from its site in “early January”. If a semi-secret countdown displayed in huge letters on the Google.com homepage is any kind of hint, then “early January” could mean January 1st 2010.


To see the mystery countdown, go to Google.com and, without entering a query, hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button (see, it is still good for something). Up will pop a countdown, currently at around 1,335,200. It appears to be ticking away the seconds, and it will hit zero in just under 15.5 days, which is January 1st, 2010.


Of course, it could just be a countdown to the New Year, but as Google has a habit of advertising some of its biggest products (the G1 handset, for example) on the front page of Google.com, it could also be the Nexus One. It would also continue Google’s annoying habit of making big product announcements on weekends and holidays, the times that tech bloggers traditionally are too drunk to write.


http://www.google.co.in/

 

[funguru]

I haven't see that countdown on googles website ever.

 

[zeo]

^The count-down timer was ticking till the night of 31st Dec I guess.

Now if you click on "I'm feeling lucky" button without searching anything you will be greeted with "Happy New Year" splashing all over the webpage like this:

 

[funguru]

zeo, i think you have malware on your computer or some virus.

 

[Sushubh]

umm no. that was google's way of a new year greeting. it stopped working after january 2 i think.

 

[funguru]

I never use the i'm feeling lucky button so i guess i never got to know.

 

[Sushubh]

well yeah. i have myself rarely used it... but this made news related to the google's new year celebrations... it only worked when you had not entered any keyword in the google search box.

 

[amish]

it still works for me. when i click "i'm feeling lucky", full page gets filled with stars

 

[funguru]

works for me also.. just checked right now a little lame thought as its already the 6th now.