Google web search is famous for shooting too many answers but when it comes to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, they are cleverly to the point.
Type “the answer to life life the universe and everything” in the Google Chrome omnibar or Google web search box, and check it out for yourself.
For those who don’t know the power of “42”. It comes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams’ most famous novel.
A supercomputer called Deep Thought was built by über-intelligent beings to give the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.
It took Deep Thought 7.5 million years to process all data and come up with the answer, which was very short and simple: 42.
Google is a kind of a supercomputer, and it took it 0.24 seconds to process the answer, but… it already knows it, right?
Google used to celebrate birthdays of famous people with the doodles. Today, on March 11, 1952, Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Surprisingly, there is no doodle to promote the man who predicted the future of books, television, and search engines.
