Lip-smacking, knick-knacking Googlewhacking

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At loose ends? Try Googlewhacking.

-- (lars@indy.net), February 12, 2002

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Guaranteed not to cause hair growth in your palms.

-- (lars@indy.net), February 12, 2002.

Two words: ashplant clippings

Of course, by the very act of revealing these words, their potency will disappear within a finite amount of time, as the Google engine slouches toward our LUSENET Bethlehem to spawn its unholy second child.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 12, 2002.


Two more: frijoles matricide

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 12, 2002.

Two more: bamboozle haricot

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 12, 2002.

Such a lovely pair: folkways mucilage

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 12, 2002.


And my final answer: insectile hairdos

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 12, 2002.

Hey! This is fun: eviscerate bushbabies

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 12, 2002.

What in the hell is going on here?

LN, you really should share some of that with the rest of the class or at least moi : )

-- capnfun (capnfun1@excite.com), February 12, 2002.


Cap'n, according to Lars' linked story, the Googlewhacking game is to do a Google search on a pair of words (such as "Borking Polynesians") and have only one web page as your search result. I've been posting some successful examples.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 12, 2002.

Would you believe a search on "farinaceous marginalia" is worth two web pages?

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 12, 2002.


LN, I think some other googlewhacker must have beat you to it :-)

-- Tricia teh Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), February 13, 2002.

Ah! But I am the sole discoverer of "antediluvean dribble"!

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 13, 2002.

I got this response : Your search - polysomnographic drivel - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

Make sure all words are spelled correctly. Try different keywords. Try more general keywords. Try fewer keywords.

Of course it would now be a googlewhack, right? ;-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), February 14, 2002.


You should have tried "carmelized isotopes", Trish. Less waiting around.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 14, 2002.

I also lay claim to "pusillanimous whelps".

Google perfidiously showed that two web pages contained this pair, but further investigation proved that one of them (an 80-odd page PDF) did not actually contain the word "whelps" within it. Oh, traitorous search engine, mend thyself!

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 14, 2002.



It is my lucky day. Googlewhacks are breaking out all over. As Google is my witness, "tangential polychromatism" is another bankable winner.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 14, 2002.

LN, methinks thou art easily entertained.

-- (a@a.a), February 14, 2002.

Easily entertained? You've hit your head on the nail! And speaking of cheap entertainment: mooncalf forgeries.

If you are out for something a bit more literate, you might find some rather dry entertainment at Ask A Drunk, although a poofter named XStatic Peace has only just appeared and brought down the tone of the place in less than 24 hours.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 14, 2002.


The words "lachrymose fondue" gave good results. One legit hit and one one pesky wordlist web page - the plague of the dedicated Googlewhacker.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 14, 2002.

Lachrymose fondue?!? Cooking with tears? Now where's the appeal in that?

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), February 19, 2002.

Solipstic dirt

-- Tricia the Canuck (j@t.n), February 19, 2002.

Congrats! Although "solipsistic dirt" netted 299 hits.

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 19, 2002.

What, now you want me to spell correctly too??? ;-)

-- Tricia the Cnauck (jayles@telusplanet.net), February 24, 2002.

'Your search - "psychopathic business leaders" - did not match any documents.'

This one I found quite by accident!

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), July 10, 2002.


Tricia, without the quotation marks and you get 2370 hits.

-- (lars@indy.net), July 11, 2002.

I was looking for an article someone told me about that claimed an extraordinary number of top business leaders were psychopathic. I didn't find it, or anything else. Quite a surprise ;-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), July 11, 2002.

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