Relive the Google Star Wars Opening Crawl
Quick Facts
- Summary
- Send your search results into the Star Wars opening crawl, with tilted yellow text, a starfield, and optional music.
- Creator
- Launched
- 2015-11-23
- Status
- Recreated
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The Original Easter Egg
How It Started
In November 2015, just before Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out, Google added a Search Easter egg. If you typed “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”, your search results turned into the opening crawl from the movies.
What It Did
The results tilted backward and scrolled into a starfield, echoing the films’ opening crawl. The Google logo and search bar faded away, and on-screen controls provided pause, resume, sound, and close actions.
Impact and Reach
The effect formed part of Google’s promotion around Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Using search results as the scrolling text connected the film’s opening sequence directly to the Search interface.
Its Discontinuation
Google retired the Easter egg on June 28, 2017.
The Restored Experience
What’s Different Here
The original began with a search for “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”. Here, clicking the Star Wars icon starts the recreated effect: yellow results tilt backward and scroll into a starfield.
The Easter Egg Experience
Click the button above, then click the Star Wars icon in the Knowledge Panel, the info box on the results page. The text turns yellow, tilts back, and scrolls into the stars. Use the on-screen buttons to pause or continue the crawl, turn the theme music on or off, or close the sequence.
How to Try It
- Click the button above to open the recreated results page.
- Click the Star Wars icon in the Knowledge Panel.
- Watch the text tip back and float off into the stars.
- Use the sound button to turn the theme music on or off.
- Use the pause button to stop the crawl, then the continue button to resume it.
- Press the close button to go back to the results.
The crawl tilts and scrolls like the one in the movies. Pause it to read a line, continue when you are ready, or close it to return to the results; the sound button controls the music.
Final Thoughts
Links and snippets take the place of the films’ opening story as the familiar results page recedes into the stars.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is the Google Star Wars Opening Crawl Easter egg?
This Easter egg, introduced in November 2015, turned your Google results page into the Star Wars opening crawl. If you searched for “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”, your results tipped back and floated into space, and you could turn on the theme music with the sound button.
The yellow text floating off into the stars looked a lot like the start of the movies.
Google retired the feature in 2017, but our recreation brings the scene back. May the search be with you!
Why did Google create this Star Wars Easter egg?
It accompanied Star Wars: The Force Awakens, released in December 2015, and adapted the series’ opening crawl to a Google results page.
The effect appeared in November, about a month before the film’s release.
Are there other movie-related Easter eggs on Google?
Google often hides Easter eggs for movies, TV shows, and special events. Many of them are interactive or change the results page itself.
Some were limited-time promotions, so a movie title may no longer trigger anything in Google Search. You can explore restored and recreated movie and TV Easter eggs on this site.
