Google's Latest Announcement Secretly Trolls Everyone

Google sure knows how to have some fun. In addition to announcing a huge restructuring of how it will function under a new company called Alphabet, it also hid a shout-out to Hooli — a fictional company in the HBO show Silicon Valley.

First spotted by Politico deputy media editor Alex Weprin, it's pretty easy to find the shout-out and link to Hooli: search for "drone delivery effort" in the company's blog. Click on the period, and you'll be redirected to the fake website of Hooli XYZ, the "experimental division of Hooli." You can see below how it looks in the code of the page itself.

The show, a parody and sometimes way-too-real depiction of what living and working in Silicon Valley is like, uses the fictional company Hooli as a form of intimation of Google. It only makes sense that in a sentence about Alphabet's X lab that Larry Page would include a hidden gem like this. Thanks for the treat!