BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 06:02 PM

Okay, I now understand "Google's dictionary", but another comment earlier doesn't seem to check out.

It was said, as I understand it, that when a combination is found it automatically becomes part of a document or file that would be found on subsequent tries, so a given combination would thereafter find two or more sites instead of the single one which made the Googlewhack. This did not occur with rabbinic caravanserai, nor does it appear to have happened with a number of the Googlewhacks claimed above.

Am I misunderstanding something here?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 06:37 PM

Dave,

Without scrolling back up to check, I think the arguement goes as follows:

On finding a 'googlewhack' you've found the only document on the web that contains those two words.

By the nature of your announcing it to the web community, you've created a second webpage that contains those words, hence it will no longer be a 'googlewhack'

In reality it isn't that simple, but I hope that answers your query

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 06:55 PM

it's interesting...because Google only indexes whatever pages are 'live' on Mudcat when it goes by, that is, on the daily list, a post of a 'whack'...(ummm..NOT 'wack') here may not get caught. But if you send your brag to certain places, it may be caught very quickly...it all depends on when & how often Google looks there and adds it to its index. I don't think Google indexes it's own searches, so just doing the search doesn't mean it's automatically ruined.

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 06:59 PM

Bill,

I kinda understood what you were saying, until:

I don't think Google indexes it's own searches

You lost me there.

Care to explain, Sir?

Subject: RE: BS: New Game: Googlewhacking!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 Feb 02 - 07:24 PM

All I can tell you is that "fennish trek", posted above two weeks ago, still shows up as a one-hit; doesn't show the appearance here at Mudcat.

Dave Oesterreich