Do Not Fold

A few weeks ago I had the chance to go to the Google Amsterdam office to meet Thomas Steiner, a Google Sales Engineer. It’s because These Days has an NDA with Google that we could go there and talk with Thomas about technical issues with several Google products, like analytics, API’s, etc.

Last Friday Tomas posted this on his blog, a couple fun facts about Google search that I didn’t knew about:

Sometimes it’s the small things that let you feel the difference. In cooking it’s just this little bit of thyme that makes a piece of meat a real steak, in technology it’s easter eggs. Search Google for recursion, and Google will ask you if you rather meant “recursion”. Search Google for ASCII art, then this is what you get for the Google logo:

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