Simply Google “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” and the results will appear in the style of the Star Wars credit crawl.
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Go ahead, try it. It’s much more exciting than the screen shot below.
Google has paid homage to the film series’ iconic title sequence by making their search results really hard to read.
You can even control the scrolling either with your fingers (via touchscreen) or arrow keys (on a keyboard). The famous science fiction gets so integration within applications and web services provided by Google such as Chrome, Maps, Waze, Gmail, Calendar, YouTube and others, changing some design elements using a color scheme of your choice: dark for Sith fans and bright for those who prefer the Jedi.
If nothing else, in the midst of all the fever surrounding the film, the new Easter Egg makes watching all the all the Star Wars related websites disappear into the abyss quite a soothing experience.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in United Kingdom cinemas on December 17 and features old faces such as Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill.
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We wrote up Google’s spectacular Star Wars themes for apps yesterday, but today, another disturbance in the Force has been felt, originating from the folks down in Mountain View.
