Google Mystery Countdown

[Lempi]

Goto www.google.com and press I'm Feeling Lucky without typing anything in, an unexplained countdown will appear.

The feature, which usually takes users directly to the top result for their query, has been programmed to display a ticker when no words are entered into the search box.

As of 7.15pm GMT on Monday, the clock had reached 1,484,258.

It appears that the blue numbers are only visible to people using the search giant's English language portals such as Google.com, Google.co.uk, Google.ie and Google.com.au. Attempting the same trick on Google's French and German websites presents an error box instead.

Google has released no statement explaining the hidden clock, but initial speculation that the search giant had advance warning of the end of the world appears wide of the mark.

[Squirt]

lols it worksxD

[M3K0S]

countdown to christmas?

EDIT: its countdown to new years...

[Sharp324]

17 days so new years.

[XMoshe]

Can't check it, I get auto directed to google.nl =[

[Pally]

Its about 1million and thats 11days which is fairly close to Christmas.

[BlackFox898]

17 days so new years.

yea, it's 17 days, or new years countdown!

[TheDrop]

new decade countdown :o

[antics]

lol
countdown to 2012

[GaGa]

Pretty cool. I was like WTF at first.

[.AWAKE.]

its the new years countdown, put your clock on ur pc to dec 31'st and there will be like 15k seconds left

[marijnz0r]

Can't check it, I get auto directed to google.nl =[

Press something like: "Go to Google.com"

[XMoshe]

Can't check it, I get auto directed to google.nl =[

Press something like: "Go to Google.com"

Auto redirect back to .nl here.

[Swindler]

WE ARE GOIIING TO DUIIEIEIIE

[Starrie]

Can't check it, I get auto directed to google.nl =[

Press something like: "Go to Google.com"

Auto redirect back to .nl here.

[Kolossal]

Can't check it, I get auto directed to google.nl =[

same, but directed to .it

[SwordCloud]

but initial speculation that the search giant had advance warning of the end of the world appears wide of the mark.

lawl,why all people want the end of the world?

1398082

so let's see in after these second what will happen on google!

[Deadsolid]

To the New Year...

[XMoshe]

Oh, haha totally missed that link u_u

[*BlackFox]

Holy shit..
Countdown 1391768

[EvGa]

Try it now.

[Swindler]

Try it now.

ye saw it to lol.

[TheDrop]

lol nice. whats up with the apple dropping though? is today when Apple was founded or something?

[Ganja]

lol nice. whats up with the apple dropping though? is today when Apple was founded or something?

It's the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton duh!

[TheDrop]

lol nice. whats up with the apple dropping though? is today when Apple was founded or something?

It's the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton duh!

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. thats clever

[Starrie]

lol nice. whats up with the apple dropping though? is today when Apple was founded or something?

If you put your cursor on the image it'll show you what it's for.

[SwordCloud]

The count down wasn't for new year so..any idea?

[Toasty]

The count down wasn't for new year so..any idea?

Err yeah it was.

When you click it now it says happy new year.

[EvGa]

The count down wasn't for new year so..any idea?

o.o

[TheDrop]

lol nice. whats up with the apple dropping though? is today when Apple was founded or something?

If you put your cursor on the image it'll show you what it's for.

too late, doesn't come up anymore