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Google-Whacking

  • 24-12-2003 12:04am
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    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Its all the rage in the US!!!
    no seriously, this is something that i only heard about last night on The Frank Skinner Show.
    Comedian Dave Gorman recieved an e-mail telling him he was 'a google-whack', when he inquired as to what it is, he found that it is when you go to www.google.com and type in two random words, and if those two words produce only one matching site that site is a google-whack. If anyone saw the show and can remember what the two words in Gormans case were, please tell me (his site wont print them as he feels they soon wont be a google whack anymore if he does)

    So has anyone else heard of this before? is this a new or old thing, maybe i just missed it.
    And has anyone ever tried for many hours to actually find a google-whack?

    /edit: heres a bit from his site with the official rules for those interested:
    As it goes, most of the googlewhacks people send me aren't really 'whacks at all. Again, I suppose this is because people have seen an interview or something and that's unlikely to contain a complete explanation of the rules. There are three main rules for 'whacking:
    1: A googlewhack contains two words, no punctuation, no inverted commas.
    2: Both the words have to be in dictionary.com.
    3: The website it leads to can't be a word list of any kind.

    the google-whack site is www.googlewhack.com too, where there is a whack stack of past google whacks, but theres no way im going to search through it to find the dave gorman combination

    Flogen


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