Hold the mouse down anywhere in the frame, or leave the Force button switched on, and Grogu lifts the whole search page toward your cursor. Let go and it falls.
What Is the Grogu Google Easter Egg?
Search for Grogu, Baby Yoda or The Mandalorian on Google and a small green figure appears at the side of the results. Click him and he uses the Force: the page shakes, elements lift off the screen, and his ears twitch while he concentrates.
It is one of a set of Star Wars easter eggs Google has run over the years, and the only one where the character reacts to what you do rather than playing a fixed animation.
How the Grogu Easter Egg Started
Google added it in December 2020, timed with the second season of The Mandalorian on Disney+. The same period brought a Baby Yoda animation to search results and a set of Star Wars themed doodles, all built to run on the live results page.
Film and television tie-ins like this one appear alongside promotions such as the Thanos gauntlet, which worked the same way: click a character in the sidebar and watch the page react.
How to Use Grogu on Google
- Search for Grogu or Baby Yoda and look to the right of the results for the character.
- Click him to trigger the Force animation.
- In the demo above, hold the mouse anywhere over the page to pull elements toward your cursor.
- Release, or press drop everything, and the page falls back down.
Grogu tracks your cursor across the bottom of the frame here, so the direction he faces matches where the page is being pulled.
FAQs
Does the Grogu easter egg still work?
Google rotates character tie-ins in and out, so it depends on when you try it. Searching for the character is free, and the demo above works regardless.
Is it the same as the Baby Yoda search animation?
They came from the same promotion. Grogu is the character’s name in the show, and both search terms led to the same effect.
Are there other Star Wars tricks on Google?
Google has run a Death Star themed search page and lightsaber cursors in the past. Most were limited to film release windows, like the rest of the Google easter eggs tied to promotions.
