Google 'Tilt' On Your iPhone And Watch Things Get Funky [UPDATE]

iPhone users browsing the web in Safari and via Google's iPhone app have reported something funny: Googling the word "tilt" makes your display appear off-kilter.

It's just a slight tilt to the right, but it's surprising when you're expecting to see a regular Google results page.

Search Engine Land has a theory about the origin of the "tilt" trick:

This does not seem to work on an iPad or on Google Android devices. So it seems like maybe this is an Apple easter egg, as opposed to something Google may have done. But I will try to confirm who planted this easter egg.

Have you recently tried searching "tilt" on Google using your iPhone? Did you notice your display go lopsided? Let us know in the comments--and also tell us if you've seen any other easter eggs--then have a look at a screenshot of the "tilt." Check out Google's recent April Fools' day pranks here.

[UPDATE: 2:30 p.m. -- Twitter user @iPhoneTeam apparently first discovered this easter egg.]

[UPDATE: 3:13 p.m. -- The easter egg can be unlocked on both iPhone and Android devices, and also works when querying "askew," in addition to "tilt."]

LOOK:

Comments

[Rusty Gordon]

06:53 PM on 04/10/2011

Works with "crooked" too.

[Thomas River]

11:49 AM on 04/07/2011

Cute.

Now, only if Google would do something appropriate when you type in "huge tax refund".....

[jaredolen]

11:47 AM on 04/07/2011

Works with my Sprint Palm Pre. Not the most fulfilling experience ever, but interesting nonetheless...

[RevSpaminator]

08:26 PM on 04/06/2011

Works on T-Mobile G2 running CM7RC4.

[scottmk]

04:14 PM on 04/06/2011

Wow.

Whoop-de-doop.

30 sec's of my life I'll never get back...

[mad lib]

04:29 PM on 04/06/2011

Wow. How do you go on living day after day? ;-)

[PalletJack]

09:52 AM on 04/07/2011

Yeah! Get that fun outta here! Live in fear and dread, dammit!

[BuckyJamesDio]

03:53 PM on 04/06/2011

Okay, that's pretty clever.

[Alex Moschopoulos]

03:32 PM on 04/06/2011

That's hilarious!

[sound of silver]

01:48 PM on 04/06/2011

works on my Android-powered Nexus One, with a browser other than the default one (Miren Browser)

[sound of silver]

01:51 PM on 04/06/2011

also, funny how this image first appeared on Reddit, clearly displayed on an Android phone. and now, people writing articles about it "aren't sure" if this Google feature works on Android phones.

sigh.

[LGuy in SD]

01:35 PM on 04/06/2011

Other words that work:

askew
crooked

[vaginacology]

01:35 PM on 04/06/2011

Searching for "tilt" on the G2 Google app also produces the off-kilter result page

[phapnui]

12:56 PM on 04/06/2011

My iphone tilts and now won't work unless I put another quarter in

[Kevin Towell]

12:37 PM on 04/06/2011

It's definitly a Google easter egg because it happens on my Android powered DroidX with the default Android browser as well. Cute.

[MochasMom]

11:44 AM on 04/06/2011

hahah! Stuff like this makes me laugh. I'm such a nerd!

[luckyguyri]

11:22 AM on 04/06/2011

works on android too!

[shaugland]

11:20 AM on 04/06/2011

Silly - but yes - it most definitely causes a 'tilt!'