Pull it slowly
Grab the tab and drag down. Do it slowly and you can watch the teeth let go of each other one pair at a time, which is the bit the original got right and most copies skip entirely.
The page splits into a V behind the head. Stop halfway and it stays halfway, hanging open with the two sides pulled apart at the top and still joined below.
One day, then gone
It was a doodle for the birthday of the engineer who worked out the modern zip fastener, and it sat on the homepage for a single day in 2012. Pull the zip, the page opened, search results underneath.
Doodles come down after their day. That is why google zipper online, google zipper play and google zipper game all point at rebuilds rather than the original, and why people still search google zipper doodle expecting to find it live.
Spelled every possible way
Google ziper, google zippe, google sipper, zip google, googlezipper, google zíper. Search sorts them all out. The odd one is google zipper 2048, which is two unrelated browser toys stuck together by autocomplete.
If you want another doodle that never came down, the maze at google pac-man is the one to try.
Anything else you drag rather than click?
The lift in grogu google works the same way, held down rather than tapped.
What is behind the page?
Here, the logo. On the original, results about the man the doodle was for.
