BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: GUEST,PaulM
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:10 AM

Nice one, Jim!

I've been trying to get a 'two worder' that includes 'Mudcat' No luck yet

Paul

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:05 AM

OK, I figure, as a folk music site we should keep this music-related:

flatulent cittern

I first tried "flatulent dulcimer" but that got 15 hits!

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 07:34 AM

A bit long, but a nice one:

well, I want to find an elegant one-result query, so i can whack

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 07:19 AM

elizabethan kirschwasser

Subject: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: GUEST,PaulM
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 06:57 AM

This was brought to my attention by a recent article in the Independent newspaper.

The basic rules of the game are to use the Google search engine to find two words which when entered, bring up one, and only one result.

Some additional rules, from this page (The site was down, so I've linked to Google's cached version):

1. Googlefactors must exist in this dictionary. It's so easy to confirm: Google does the work! In the blue bar atop your Google results, accepted terms are linked to dictionary.com, and so appear 'underlined.' No line, no link = Googlethud!

2. Google also is the arbiter of a whack's uniqueness. Look to the right end of the blue bar atop your Google results. If you see "Results 1 - 1 of (any number),' you found exactly one hit = Googlewhack!

3. Google shows you an excerpt of the page you whacked. Look at that text. If it's merely a list of words, No Whack For You!

Phrases in quotes shouldn't be used, and I think an additional rule should be to ban geneology pages, which are just a list of names.

My best result so far: fennish trek

Paul