When no search results to display for a query when you apply the “past hour” filter, Google says your query did not match any documents and suggests making sure words are spelled correctly and trying general or different keywords. This is an obvious result, today, we found the company is testing a fishing game when it has nothing to display for the entered query. He continues to wait for fish, when you click on bait, the hunter puts the fish hooked to stick into a bucket. So it’s like, a user can continue to play and try to catch fish on Google Search when SERP is empty.
Play Fishing game on Google Search
Till now, you may know about various easter eggs on Google where the Search giant may display strange and surprising results for certain queries.
For instance, you can play PacMan and the search results page gets tilted and turns 360 degrees when you enter “askew” and “do a barrel roll ” respectively.
Google is trying something different now. It lets you play the role of a fisherman when there are no search results to display.
For instance, for techdows query for past hour, the search couldn’t produce results and surprisingly shows fisherman below with a stick and bucket to catch and hold fish.
Whenever you click on bait, one time he gets a fish, another time, a shoe. Hunter enjoys fishing by singing when idle and does nothing unless you click on a stick or the bait.
Seems we’re part of this experiment by Google (not signed in to Google account) and couldn’t able to repro in Chrome and Edge. We got this in private browsing in Firefox.
For the past hour, when Google has no results to display, it is showing the new thing. we can confirm we’ve no extensions enabled in Firefox private browsing to trigger this.
Is this new or old? Have you experienced this before? Let us know in the comments below.
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I use Chrome Beta and got this too
you don’t need chrome beta to get it, It appears all versions even if it isn’t beta
funny fishing guy :)
How can we get rid of this? Are we “imposed” such feature in google? Some people may like not to be disturbed by any images or games…..
Please help to get rid of this, I hade this image and it comes all the time a search is not successful… This may be amusing for kids, for me and I suppose others, it really sucks..
Simon, you can ignore it.
Items (monster emotions) are –
– a crooked can (sad)
– a fish (happy)
– a can of fish (happy)
– a boot (sad)
Goofy ahh fisherman
I believe this is new and was added pretty recently.