Google Float Easter Egg

Gravity pointing the wrong way

The letters are soft clay blobs with a white highlight across the top, and they climb instead of falling. They bump the ceiling, sink a little, drift sideways on a slow sine wave, and never once come to rest. Leave the tab open and the arrangement will be completely different when you look back.

Your cursor pushes rather than pulls. Move it into a cluster and everything scatters, which makes herding the letters into a corner weirdly compelling, right up until they escape.

Bouncy mode is the one people share

Turn it on and every letter starts squashing and stretching on its own timing. Combined with the drifting, the whole tank looks like a jar of something alive. Searches for bouncy google and google bouncy logo mostly end up here for that reason.

Pin it down flips the physics back to normal for a moment, so everything rains to the floor and piles up. Releasing the pin is the best single click in this whole thing, nine letters launching at once.

Drag, hold, release

Grab any letter and it stops dead in your hand. Drag it to the floor, hold it there against the lift, and let go. It takes off with the momentum you gave it plus whatever it was already trying to do.

Small print

Add six more stacks another set of letters into the tank. There is no cap, and the physics stays smooth well past thirty, though the cursor push starts to feel like stirring soup. Pop them all clears the tank with an expanding fade and rebuilds a clean set of six.

Related things that mess with physics

The obvious pair is google gravity, which does the same thing in the opposite direction, and google gravity black hole, which removes the floor entirely. grogu google is the character led version where something decides to lift the objects for you.

For something that spins instead of floats, do a barrel roll takes about four seconds. The rest of the collection is on the google easter eggs page.