To prepare you for the launch of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, and to immerse you in 19th century London, Ubisoft has created a 19th Century Search Engine. ”A rich historical research tool designed to look just like the search engines our great-great-great-grandparents used in 1868”.

welp

It’s a strange thing. If you would like a look at it, go here:

www.searchengine.assassinscreed.com

Personally, I found that a lot of my searches lead to an error screen. Even some of the search suggestions. You know, it really doesn’t function at all well as a search engine. I searched for ”war” and the top result was an article about an auction.

There’s hundreds of pieces of content on the thing, though. Most seem to attempt humour. Whether they succeed is, I’m sure, up to you.

welp