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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST Date: 06 Feb 02 - 07:19 AM elizabethan kirschwasser
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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 |
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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: I first tried "flatulent dulcimer" but that got 15 hits! |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Jim Dixon Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:15 AM onanistic dulcimer works, too! And it brings up a wonderful limericks site! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Desdemona Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:22 AM You boys will go blind if you keep doing that! -Mom |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Amos Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:30 AM So does cosmological philandery, but what would you expectfrom a stupid machine? LOL!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Jim Dixon Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:30 AM Well, omnidirectional mudcat works, but it brings up the Mudcat itself. That almost feels like cheating, somehow. Anyway, it's not very interesting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST,PaulM Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:34 AM OK, sorry, I thought some wordsmiths here might have some fun. Sorry to have bothered you. Paul |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:44 AM This sounds like fun. I was amazed at what popped up for Atavistic Cuneiform... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:45 AM It's too Neo-Ontological for me. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: SDShad Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:00 AM denebian boondoggle |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Mr Red Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:05 AM I am constantly putting in one or two words and getting no answers, unless you count paid for advertising type hits that don't even come close to what I want. Even so I often get no result but maybe thats on three words, as for only one result, as these search engines try to get more cute we find alternative spellings, contained words, goddamit rhymes will be next!!! as a game, I pass. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:05 AM denebian is not in google's dictinary (it's not underlined) so that doesn't count. Sorry |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST,priapic kerryman Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:10 AM I only occur once, so I do! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:12 AM again, kerryman isn't in the google dictionary (it isn't underlined). Please scroll up and try to understand the rules |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: wysiwyg Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:15 AM Um, Guest, here at Mudcat it doesn't really work to try to herd the wet cats up ropes, or to ride a horse in a direction it ain't going. A game is for playing.... people are playing. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: SDShad Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:23 AM Okay, then:
So there. Nyah, nyah, nyah. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST,priapic kerryman Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:32 AM Yeah Guest ... Just shut your gob, otherwise I'll shove my doo-dah where the sun doesn't shine! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:44 AM Are we allowed to use words illegal in Scrabble, like names and places? I got one single hit for Mrrzy + my real last name, and it wasn't on the Mudcat either... but I somehow feel that's cheating. I got several hits, oddly enough, for Abidjan dumbfound, but again, I'm not sure if I'm cheating anyway. Am continuing to try, here and there... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:55 AM OK, got one: "bashi-bazouk idolatry" brings up something on the Knights of Malta... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Jim Dixon Date: 06 Feb 02 - 11:10 AM PaulM: Please don't be offended! "It's not very interesting" was meant to refer to my results in one instance. Not to the game, which is wonderful! We ARE having fun. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Kim C Date: 06 Feb 02 - 12:55 PM Undulating Camel. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Feb 02 - 01:16 PM Undulating Camel gave me over 1600 hits... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST Date: 06 Feb 02 - 01:16 PM Undulating Camel gets 1,830 results, which is a larger number than 1... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 06 Feb 02 - 01:24 PM 4 tries: 1. bloody mudcat: 10 pages 2. f***ing mudcat: 4 pages - so much to foul language in Mudcat 3. callous mudcat: 1 page 4. periphrastic mudcat: googlewhack! Wilfried |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST,PaulM Date: 06 Feb 02 - 01:43 PM Good one, Wilfred! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 06 Feb 02 - 01:45 PM And now something totally different for the puissant pissant peasant (threadid=43354): puissant mudcat? googlewhack! Wilfried |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Feb 02 - 02:19 PM Swordsman Breeziness got me some single chapter in a book somewhere, possibly by the Baroness Orczy... and Wilfried, you're hot! Tssss... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Barbara Shaw Date: 06 Feb 02 - 02:27 PM Here's the 1 of 1 result from Shoregrass Music. Unfortunately, only music was in dictionary.com, although the result of the search was valid. This is a deficiency of dictionary.com however, since the term shoregrass does indeed exist in the botanical world as the common name for monanthochloe littoralis, and elsewhere (our bluegrass band). |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST Date: 06 Feb 02 - 02:39 PM Not sure about it being a 'deficiency of dictionary.com.' It isn't in the 22 volume Oxford English Dictionary either. A number of sites, this one, for example, consider it to be "Shore Grass" Is it a new plant? Or a very rare plant? |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Feb 02 - 02:45 PM My Anagrammatical Zebra should be included in any A to Z of googlewhacks! Cheers
Dave the Gnome |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST Date: 06 Feb 02 - 02:47 PM Sorry, Dave! Look at the rules as posted in the first message: Look at that text. If it's merely a list of words, No Whack For You! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Barbara Shaw Date: 06 Feb 02 - 02:52 PM I'm completely out of my element talking about plant names, but here's the page where I found it: California Wetlands Information System. You're right, it's not really a deficiency, as I wouldn't expect these names to be included in most dictionaries. Anyway, I enjoyed playing the game and getting a 1 for 1 on my first try! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Kim C Date: 06 Feb 02 - 03:01 PM Undulating Camel If you put in in quotation marks, you get one. Was I not supposed to do that? Otherwise it isn't a phrase. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Kim C Date: 06 Feb 02 - 03:05 PM Okay, so I guess I did it wrong. I'll try again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST Date: 06 Feb 02 - 03:08 PM Sorry Kim, From the first post: Phrases in quotes shouldn't be used |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Kim C Date: 06 Feb 02 - 03:16 PM Yes, thank you, I see that now. However it seemed logical to me that one would be searching for a phrase, for the two words together in sequence, not just for the two words to pop up somewhere together on a website. Inconsequential absquatulation almost works, except that absquatulation isn't in their dictionary. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Kim C Date: 06 Feb 02 - 03:24 PM Is this more like it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Kim C Date: 06 Feb 02 - 03:31 PM Gargantuan sackbut :-P there's no rule against the site being in French, is there? |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST Date: 06 Feb 02 - 03:52 PM Absolutely not. Gargantuan sackbut is quite superb. Best yet on this thread, if you ask me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Feb 02 - 07:29 PM Damn! And I thought I had one then! (When I saw Zebra-parakeet I thought it was not a just list of words.Wrong as usual:-( ) How about - Guest has David the gnome by the goolies. 1 hit - honest!!! Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: GUEST,Cookieless Anahootz Date: 06 Feb 02 - 07:32 PM Felonius Hoodwinking
I think he might be a relative of Thelonious Monk. Cousin, mebbe... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Anahootz Date: 06 Feb 02 - 07:35 PM Hmm, I cut n pasted the link, and the google text is correct...wonder why it is spelled wrong on the post? |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Jim Dixon Date: 06 Feb 02 - 08:29 PM Four more! All musical (sort of) polyandrous guitarist turns up a porn site!
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Alice Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:00 PM chokecherry harmonium |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Alice Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:02 PM ooops, chokecherry harmonium wasn't in the Google dictionary. Let me try that again... |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Alice Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:05 PM um, on second look, chokecherry harmonium is in the Google dictionary, and turns up one result. My eyes are having trouble reading that tiny white type reversed on the blue bar. |
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Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking! From: Anahootz Date: 06 Feb 02 - 09:19 PM poorly-concieved rubberneckers hehehe... |