Who's tried googlewhacking?

[yvr girl]

It is a little addictive, I must admit.

[eaprez]

1. please explain what that is

[yvr girl]

2. It's a game

You type two words into google. No quotes, real words. See how many returns you get. A googlewhack is when you get one link returned - harder to do than you could imagine.

www.googlewhacking.com

[Debbi801]

13. OMG This could be seriously addicting.

[MissBrooks]

14. Have you googled yourself yet?

I like to google people I know to find out their little secrets.

[Gothmog]

3. I saw the story on the Today show

googlewacking is putting two words into a google search and getting only one hit. No quotation marks are allowed. It is very hard to do this.

There is a guy who has a movie or a show who is addicted to googlewacking. The Today show had Scarlett Johanson trying it this morning.

[yorkiemommie1]

4. i tried it

took a couple of tries but i got one. fun!

[TaleWgnDg]

5. huh?

What is it about the internet? Why does it attract so many folks who have too much time on their hands?



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[C.C.D.]

6. Sounds like a horrible waste of time to me. (nt)

[Ian David]

7. I spent 30 minutes googlewhacking today and became discouraged

After 30 minutes, I was thrilled to have already found a googlewhack.

And then I realized it was on a page designed specifically to attract people trying to googlewhack.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=magnetohydrodynamic+necrophilia

The bastards.

They've already killed the sport.

[Ian David]

8. OK, I got a real one (sort of)

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=freeper+magnetohydrodynamic&btnG=Search

freeper magnetohydrodynamic

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/964820/posts

It links to the freeper board (sigh).

[Nye Bevan]

9. Yes, a complete and utter waste of time....

.... but I finally got one!

UNSUBTLY IMPECUNIOUSLY

[Ian David]

10. Sorry, Mathguy. It doesn't count.

1) It's a dead link

2) It's a keyword trap:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:WQgD2kYma9MJ:23.898.net/contractUs/Acrux/Alysson+UNSUBTLY+IMPECUNIOUSLY&hl=en

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[Nye Bevan]

15. OK....

I suppose you will say

UNCTUOUSLY DEFRAGMENTATION

does not count either (it is a live link and I don't THINK it is a keyword trap) (I had never heard the term "keyword trap" until today) but it appears to be some kind of dictionary list:

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/courses/CS212b/ProjectFiles/MasterDict.dat

but I think THIS one is completely legitimate:-

AUTOPHOBIC MATERNAL

The trick seems to be to take one VERY rare word (I used "autophobic" from the Dean Koontz book "false memory") which returns ZERO matches when paired with many words. Then you just keep pairing your rare word with different common words until you get that 1 match.

[yvr girl]

19. It's easy to get zero matches

I've had several with under 10. A few twos. No googlewhacks though.

[intheflow]

11. barking bibliodrama

and it only took me 3 minutes.

I'd like to thank my boss (a minister) and her dog that I'm dogsitting for the real-life inspiration. :silly:

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. First try worked

starkist sneetches

[Nye Bevan]

16. That gives me TWO matches (n/t)

[ThoughtCriminal]

18. Strange - only one here

From Google home and toolbar. I tried changing my SafeSearch" preferences to "no filter" and still only got one.

[Nye Bevan]

22. I get....

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=starkist+sneetches

#1: http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/TeenScene/ts52.txt

#2: http://www.midwestbookreview.com/rbw/aug_04.htm

Weird.

[ThoughtCriminal]

25. I get one when I click on your google link

I wonder if different google servers (I assume there is more than one) can give different results? That would be an interesting find.

[Nye Bevan]

26. I think that must be it

I played with the preferences and filtering and always get 2 results. Unfortunately that somewhat spoils the sport of googlewhacking.

[Nye Bevan]

17. Here's a googlewhack that links to DU!

MIHOP FREEPING

[ThoughtCriminal]

20. Yeah, but Freeping Idiots returns 1380 (nt)

[Nye Bevan]

23. The ultimate DU googlewhack?

MATCOM BEVHARRIS

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=MATCOM+BEVHARRIS

OK, now I am REALLY TRULY done with this!

[Zuni]

21. I just did "Immense Octopus"

and got a bunch of returns

[Beer Snob-50]

24. DID YOU REALIZE

THAT IF ONE ENTERS SEX AND GOD I COME UP! IT'S TRUE.

[yvr girl]

27. With about 14 million other entries

[Beer Snob-50]

28. Ouch!

thanks for making a guy feel special!!!

[yvr girl]

29. you asked for that one

If you want your "sex god" site to appear higher on the list, you need to get it optimized.

[Beer Snob-50]

30. sigh!!!!

google doesn't know anything! just ask those who have knelt before the God of thunder.

[yvr girl]

31. LOL

You need them to link to your site. That's the kind of referral that google pays attention to.

[Beer Snob-50]

32. I will have to pull my rolodex out of the safe

all my conquests in alphabetic order

[yvr girl]

33. Do you have conquest as a special category

Or do you have a notion beside their name?

[Beer Snob-50]

34. notation next to their name

as an example

yvr girl-xxxx

each x represents a grade the more x's the higher the grade