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“Let it Snow” on Google – Latest Search Engine Easter Egg

‘Tis The Season for Peace on Earth, Sugarplums and dreams of a White Christmas. Google is doing it’s part with a new search engine Easter Egg.

Search Engine Easter Eggs

Google has been famous not only for being a great search engine, having awesome logo doodles, but also for it’s search engine easter eggs. Searching for things like “Do A Barrel Roll” and “askew” bring up some fun results and now Google is joining in to the Christmas season with “Let it Snow”!  If you let it snow long enough it will even fog up your screen and offer a “Defrost” button to clear off the ice.

For those of you who like stuff like this, here is a list of 10  silly Google tricks, and for those of you who are just in the mood from some Christmas music…

 

 

 

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Using Google Multiple Accounts to make Analytics easier

I’ve had a dilemma for a while. I have two google accounts. One has my google reader setup and some of my analytics. The other, setup with my business email address gave me access to clients Analytics accounts.

I’ve struggled with this for a while, logging in and out of both of my google accounts continually, until yesterday. Google, for the last year, has had a multiple account sign-in feature. Multiple accounts can be added and switched between easily.

Initially I didn’t think this was going to help, it doesn’t support Analytics, but it does support Reader and Gmail. So now, I login with my business Analytics account, but can quickly switch to my personal account when I’m in Reader and Gmail. No more logging in and out to see customer’s analytics.