Googlewhacks - anyone else new to this?

Basq

About to sit down and watch British writer / funnyman Dave Gorman's show titled "Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure".

For those who don't know:

Dave Gorman was supposed to write a novel. He had a very nice contract with Random House and a sizable monetary advance -- but when he sat down at his computer, he could not start chapter one. The problem, he states, is that his computer is connected to the Internet, which contains "everything in the whole wide world ever," and this can be a bit distracting. A random e-mail from a stranger telling him that he's a "googlewhack" puts into motion the hilarious chain of events related in his compelling one-man tour de force Dave Gorman's Googlewhack! Adventure.

For those unfamiliar with the term, a "googlewhack" is what happens when you key two unrelated words into the Internet search engine Google and come back with only one response. By extension, the term also applies to the owners of these websites. In Gorman's case, the words entered were "Francophile" and "namesakes" (which, of course, no longer qualify him as a googlewhack, as those two words now pull up several websites -- most of which relate to the writer-performer's current show). When Gorman discovered that he was a googlewhack, his first impulse was to try out different word combinations to see if he could find other googlewhacks.

His book is apparently quite a good read also.. Dave Gorman is supposed to be a very interesting storyteller so i'm intrigued to see how this show goes. Will let ye know.

Anyways... anyone got any Googlewhack(s) they wish to share?

simu

Sorry but googlewhacking seems to me to be the last resort of the inutterably sad and bored.

Basq

That's exactly what intrigues me about Dave Gorman's show / book (the show selling out around Britain / the book being #1 for a time).

How someone could make the topic interesting and (possibly) funny is what i wanna witness.

simu

Aha. Yeah, that would be some feat.

Doodee

been around for ages, its a brilliant show to watch, he presents it so well and keeps you listening to the last minute

YeatsCounty

W00t!

A deppaneur is a grocery store (that also sells beer), the name of which is unique to Quebec. "Deps" are not very common in Scotland, apparantly.

I'm intrigued to find out what "Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure" was like now.

Geff

Read about this a while back.

Seem retarded.

Cactus Col

read his other book "are you dave gorman" .. and it was quite good, funny, very similar to Tony Hawk's books like "Round Ireland With A Fridge", so I'd imagine it'd be quite a good book, and Danny Wallace, Dave Gorman's partner for the "are you dave gorman" book has written a few similar, wacky adventure type books ("join me" ... it's pretty good)

The problem with I found with these books is the contrived way they go about telling how they got the idea for the book / adventure, I don't believe that Gorman was trying to write a novel, and then went on an adventure about googlewhacks, rather, he was trying to think about what kind of crazy adventure he could go on, and then someone sent him an email.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

simu wrote:

Sorry but googlewhacking seems to me to be the last resort of the inutterably sad and bored.

hmmm - and reading a thread on googlewhacking, and responding to it is not the last resort of the inutterably sad and bored?!!

ianmc38

Yeah there was a whole googlewahcking fad at one stage. All different types of whackers, uniwhackers etc. Pretty tiresome stuff really

Bob the Seducer

This is the first I've ever heard of it, it's not exactly very impressive though here's a simple formula take one name (in Irish) add an obscure location et voila a "googlewhack" in less than 30 seconds

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=O%27Braonain+Tashkent&btnG=Search&meta=

Sleepy

Absolutely love Dave Gorman's Googlewhack adventure. It's one of the best comedy DVD's I've ever seen!`

Basq

Have to agree with Sleepy... it was absolutely fantastic!

I had medium expectations but absolutely loved it - Dave Gorman is a true storyteller. At almost 2 hours long, it's not easy to be entertained by a man on a stage and a slideshow running in the background but it was excellent!

Ravage1616

i think i've seen this gut before did he do a show where he went looking for other Dave Gorman's in the world? And mixed everyons face together to see what the average Dave Gorman looks like? It was on a good while back!

steveland?

Yeh he was challenged to find 54 Dave Gormans... one for every card in the deck (including jokers)

Enjoyed the show but he started cheating at the end... getting people to legally change their names via d-pole (sp?)

Basq

Yeah.. not to spoil too much about it but one of the googlewhack's he found in the show was on a site registered by a different Dave Gorman... who he met years earlier when he was doing the find all the Dave Gorman's show.

it's not exactly very impressive though here's a simple formula take one name (in Irish) add an obscure location et voila a "googlewhack" in less than 30 seconds

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&cl...G=Search&meta=

Actually.. that's not a correct Googlewhack...!

The words that exist must be real words which exist on Dictionary.com. A tip he mentioned that if Google doesn't underline your search terms in the results area. See how 'Braonain is not underlined in your search above. That means it's not a word.

Ravage1616

I'll have to check it out, liked him last time i seen him!

Setun

Yeah it was a bit of a fad a few years back. I read the book, it's really good, definitely worth a read, aswell as Are You Dave Gorman.

www.googlewhack.com is the main website dedicated to googlewhacking needs. It's a fun distraction, like Boards I suppose.