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March 30, 2021 01:49 pm

Google celebrates the unblocking of the Suez Canal with a small boat parade in search




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The big boat is no longer stuck. After days of rapt attention from the internet, a non-metaphorical rising tide has indeed lifted all the boats — and particularly, the Evergreen Marine Corporation’s Ever Given cargo ship — reopening the Suez Canal to regular shipping traffic and ensuring that the precious lifeblood of capitalism can continue to flow freely.


Naturally, Google is celebrating this simultaneously momentous and absurd moment in human history the only way it knows how: an Easter egg in Google searches for the phrases “Suez Canal” and “Ever Given” that show a tiny parade of cute lil’ emoji boats marching across your screen, just like the (much bigger) boats that can now (less cutely, one presumes) float their way through the...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/30/22358091/google-ever-given-suez-canal-boat-parade-search-easter-egg

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