Point it and hold
The head tracks your cursor, so the airflow goes wherever you look. Hold it on a stack of results and they lift, tumble and end up jammed against the far wall. Ease off and they drop where they are.
Setting one barely moves the footer links. Setting three shifts the entire layout in about four seconds. There is also an oscillate mode, which sweeps the head back and forth on its own and slowly wrecks the page while you sit and watch.
The name is the joke
Search for google fan and you get people who like the company. So someone built the appliance instead, which is why crazy google fan, real google fan and the ultimate google fan all end up pointing at a spinning desk fan sat in the corner of a search page.
It runs the same physics as google gravity with one extra rule: only things inside the cone of air get pushed, and the push weakens with distance. That is the whole google fan trick.
Worth trying
- Aim straight up and hold. Blocks hover, wobble, and drop the moment you move the cursor.
- Switch to oscillate and drag a result into the sweep path.
- Turn the fan off, stack everything in one corner by hand, then hit speed three.
Can it blow things off the screen?
No. Everything stays inside the frame, so leaving it running does not lose anything. The tidy button puts it all back.
Does anything else move the page around?
The pull version is black hole google, which drags everything to a point instead of shoving it at a wall.
Why do goggle fan and gogle fan lead here?
Typos, corrected automatically, which is also how google fan 2 and googlefan ended up as search suggestions for the same page.
