The "O's" from the Google image become swarming "zerglings" after a search for the gaming term "Zerg rush. Story highlights A Google search for "Zerg rush" spawns an attack of "O's" on the results page The term originated in the game "Starcraft," in which players can be "Zerg" aliens It has come to mean any instance of being overwhelmed by sheer numbers.
Feeling besieged by pesky little problems today? You might want to be careful with your Google searches. Users who look up the term "Zerg rush" Friday are finding the latest in a series of geeky Easter eggs planted by the search giant's engineers. The search produces a swarm of marauding "O's" which inevitably destroy virtually everything on the search-results page.
The term quickly became a top search topic for Google Friday morning, as gamers and the merely curious flocked to the feature.
At the top of that page will be a link to the game and clicking this will activate the Easter egg. However, if you want to do it properly then the trick is to go to google. This will then automatically unlock the Easter egg instead of generating the main 'Zerg rush' page and results. Once activated, a bunch of Os will drop down from the Search bar and then it becomes a race against time to double-click on each of them before they spread, consuming everything in their path, and breeding new Os.
To be completely honest, I never feel lucky while conducting a Google search. That is, until today, at any way. So, what exactly does it accomplish?
So, yes, you should consider yourself lucky because you never know what is going to be thrown in your direction.
To some extent, yes. You can absolutely win this do a zerg rush game! It is, in a sense, possible to win this game. At least on a computer, which is configured to remap the left mouse button to one of the keyboard buttons e. However, most people believe that it is impossible to win this game.
They will advise you to not even try it. Apart from the mouse button remapping technique, you could look up to GitHub for some cheats. StarCraft is a real-time strategy game series created by Blizzard Entertainment that centers around interplanetary politics in a remote part of the galaxy, with three races and many groups striving for power.
The Terrans, humans forced to flee from Earth who do well at adapting to any situation; the Zerg, an insectoid extra-terrestrial race fixated with integrating other races in the quest of biological perfection. And the Protoss, an advanced technological humanlike species with psionic abilities who attempts to safeguard their culture and strict ideological way of life. Since its debut in , the original StarCraft has sold over 10 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful games ever.
StarCraft is credited with popularizing the notion of unique sides and asymmetric combat in the real-time strategy genre. The attention to the gameplay balance between the species, as well as the fictional storylines developed around them, has been commended in recent reviews of the game.
Googling 'zerg rush' sends you to battle to save your search results Google's latest Easter Egg asks you to search for the phrase "zerg rush," forcing you into combat to vanquish attacking Os before they gobble up your results.
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