Google celebrates Festivus, Christmas with new easter eggs

Easter eggs from Google are not something new. We have seen various hidden gags and visual messages in Google's search on entering certain keywords. Now, with Festivus and Christmas around the corner, Google's new easter eggs have come to the notice of users.

Google has incorporated a new easter egg in its search results to mark Festivus, a secular holiday which is celebrated on December 23 as an alternative to Christmas and as way to commemorate the season without participating in its pressures and commercialism.

Type Festivus into Google and you will get a undecorated aluminum Festivus pole on the left side of the search page. Festivus became part of popular culture after it was featured on an episode of the American TV show Seinfeld in 1997.

In the show, George Costanza's father was seen telling how he came up with Festivus to replace over-commercialised Christmas.

Besides, to pay a tribute to Christmas, there is another easter egg that Google has come up with. As you type Christmas into Google, you will see a decorated strip appearing just below the search bar.

In April this year, Google had introduced a new easter egg. On searching for the keywords "Zerg Rush", links/results in the search results become non-clickable. Immediately after the search results appear, a chunk of little Os from the Google logo start dropping from the top of the screen. Now here the real fun starts! Use your mouse to click and destroy the Os - or zerglings - before they wipe out your search results, and form two large Gs on the page. As the game ends, users are allowed to share their scores via Google+, thereby letting their followers know that how many zerglings they managed to target.