Google Just Built a Time Machine Out of a Search Bar
Type "zelda" into Google right now and look at the bottom corner of the screen. A Master Sword just shows up — click it, the blade drops back into its pedestal, and the whole page falls backwards into 1998. Blue links. Plain text results. The old "I'm feeling lucky" button, back when it just took you somewhere random. Google built this to celebrate the Ocarina of Time remake, and honestly? It's the nicest thing a search engine has done in years.
The egg leans on the one time-travel rule every Zelda fan has memorized: put the Master Sword back in the pedestal, and the years roll backwards. Twenty-eight years, in this case.
That's your destination: Google as it looked in 1998, the year the original game shipped on Nintendo 64. No AI summaries, no sponsored rows — just blue links and an exclamation-marked logo.
One catch: it only lives on that single results page. You can't keep browsing in 1998 — no matter how loudly fans are begging Google to make it permanent.
Watch the video
The full minute — how to trigger it, what you'll find, and why fans want to stay there:
The Ocarina of Time remake lands on Switch 2 this Thursday, November 5. Source: [IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/zelda-ocarina-of-time-google-easter-egg target="_blank" rel="noopener"), [VGC](https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/googles-zelda-ocarina-of-time-easter-egg-transports-users-back-to-1998/ target="_blank" rel="noopener"), [Nintendo Life](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/11/googles-ocarina-of-time-easter-egg-will-transport-you-back-to-the-internet-of-old target="_blank" rel="noopener").