Google pranks users who search for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Google and HBO have teamed up for a fun in-world joke about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms that fans are sure to love!

Like it or not, Google is the most common search engine to use on the Internet. Sure, there are risks such as the mining of private data for ads and such. Still, Google can be fun when used for searches. A good example is when you search for a sports team that just won a championship and the page erupts with fireworks. 

Obviously, folks have used Google to search for details on A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The latest Game of Thrones series has become a hit, and folks will search for information on episodes, the stars, season 2 plans and more.

However, in the last week, those who have used this search engine have noticed something. Type in “a knight of the seven kingdoms” into Google and you get this entry on top: “ser, did you mean a knight of the nine kingdoms.”

While this might seem like a small detail that many might miss, dismissing as the usual Google correction, it’s actually a reference to one of the funnier turns of the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms finale. In the final scenes, Dunk (Peter Claffey) and squire Egg (Dexter Soll Ansell) are heading onto the road when Dunk makes an offhand remark about the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. Egg corrects him that there are nine: The Crownlands, Westerlands, Stormlands, Riverlands, the Iron Islands, the North, the Reach, the Vale of Arryn, and Dorne. The show even ends with the title changed to “A Knight of the Nine Kingdoms.”

This is all meant to reflect the viewpoint of Egg, a.k.a. Aegon Tagaryen, claiming that the overall rule of Westeros includes nine kingdoms, despite how the Crownlands and the Riverlands weren’t established until after the Tagaryen Conquest. It’s a nice touch to establish the way the Targaryens take it for granted that nine kingdoms exist, while the smallfolk only count the seven that have existed since the beginning of Westeros.

Google is having some fun with that mentality, playing on the idea that the Targaryens are making it "official history” that are nine kingdoms, and thus altering the internet to reflect that. Google seems to enjoy these little tricks on searches to set itself apart from numerous other search engines and spark up extra news about the show.

As fans know, future events will see Dunk and Egg traverse the map of Westeros, so it's likely new searches will have other “easter egg” touches like this one. It’s another good example of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms having a lot more levity than one would expect from a Game of Thrones show.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 is streaming on HBO Max. Season 2 is currently filming, and is slated to premiere in 2027.