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The googlewhack game is to find two words which, when plugged into the Google search engine, will produce one and only one hit. It's apparently popular enough that "googlewhack" yields over about 5,400 Google hits.

The arbiter of "what is a word" is dictionary.com.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your Google engines!

Disclaimer:"Google" is a trademark identifying the search technology and services of Google Technologies Inc.
 
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schadenfreude abjuration
 
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when I cut and pasted that into my google, I got 2 hits! One question, do the words have to be side by side on the hit? For example, if I put in "big pig" I will get all the sites that have those 2 words together, also, all the sites that contain those 2 words in separate places.
 
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I gave this a shot, but ended up at a site that has some verrrrry interesting content, including "The Swear Word of The Day." http://archive.3-am.com/ No points for me regarding Googlewhacking, but maybe points for whacking in other ways. Roll Eyes
 
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disembarrassment napping

Ta-Dah!
 
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1) when I cut and pasted that into my google, I got 2 hits!
2) Do the words have to be side by side on the hit?


1) Mea culpa. My google-preferences were set to "english only". When I reset them to "any language", a second hit came up. Frown Mea maxima culpa.

Change it to schadenfreude corybant. Big Grin

2) No; no quotes around the word pair. Otherwise the game would be much easier.
 
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Will some kind souls please tell me what are Acanthocephala, ballistophobia, (other than words with serious double-dactyl potential Cool) and karakul?

Edit: pseudohermaphrodite ostrich
Oh, I like this game!

[This message was edited by wordnerd on Mon May 5th, 2003 at 9:44.]
 
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Will some kind souls please tell me what are _Acanthocephala, ballistophobia,_ and _karakul?_


Acanthocephala:
A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.


ballistophobia:
The fear of bullets, ammunition and of guns.


karakul:
Any of a breed of Central Asian sheep having a wide tail and wool that is curled and glossy in the young but wiry and coarse in the adult.

Fur made from the pelt of a karakul lamb.
 
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wordcraft.....infopop
This I found purely by mistake months ago, trying to Google for wordcraft.
 
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Don't get mad now... but... infopop is a word according to dictionary.com? Roll Eyes
 
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Yeah, yeah, and neither is "wordcraft". I forgot about that aspect of the game. Roll EyesDarn! I never have been good at games; did you see how I was completely duped in that "easiest quiz" thread? I thought "easiest" meant easiest! Mad

Anyway, I found 2 more to make up for it:

blowsy....bradypnea (Thank God for my medical background!Wink
 
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cryptonym....mango

I just love this game! Wink Shufitz says it's no fair to use medical terms so I have been trying other words. Sheeesh--after all, he could use legal words! Razz
 
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Shufitz says it's no fair to use medical terms so I have been trying other words. Sheeesh--after all, he could use legal words! Razz


Must I endure these unceasing kvetches? Mad Wink
 
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I'm new to this. Could someone explain to me why 'infopop' and 'wordcraft' were (I think??) not considered suitable?

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I'm new to this. Could someone explain to me why 'infopop' and 'wordcraft' were (I think??) not considered suitable?

Tadpole
From the first post here Tadpole: "The arbiter of "what is a word" is dictionary.com." So I guess that Wordcraft hasn't made it as a word in dictionary.com. Frown
 
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"The arbiter of "what is a word" is dictionary.com."

I guess I missed that. My entry is invalid, then, since mycotrophy doesn't qualify.

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Just goes to show, Tinman, how everyone here trusts you--especially with Googling! Wink Note how they check me out nine ways from Sunday!

schadenfreude pasteurize

Good grief it took me awhile to find a word with "schadenfreude! Big Grin
 
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Just goes to show, Tinman, how everyone here trusts you--especially with Googling!

Thank you, kalleh. But remember what Ronnie Reagan said: "Trust, but verify". That's about the only thing he said I agree with!

Tinman
 
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I was going to offer an alternative way to play this game but I find that I cannot even come close to winning it myself. Maybe other brighter wordcrafters will have more success.

On the assumption that it wasn't all that difficult to googlewack large obscure words together to produce one-hit findings (which I now also find is not the case) I was going to challenge you all to find the shortest two word pairing that provided this same result.

After wasting some 15 minutes of my life in this pursuit (though, of course, it wouldn't have been a waste had I been successful) the best I came up with was "gnu adz" which still had over 700 hits! If the 6-letter "gnu adz" still comes in at triple digits, I give up.
 
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CJ, I tried short words per your challenge. The problem seems to be that any pair of very-short words will appear an webpages of "words for Scrabble". Mad
 
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morgan......cunctipotent

This wasn't easy to find!
 
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Jerry, I tried hard to find a word with jerry (yes, jerry is in dictionary.com; it is British slang for a German, especially a German soldier.) However, the closest I could come was 2 sites.
 
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Jerry, if this were a contest (who can Google the 2 most common words and find only one citation), I believe you would win! I am surprised that there is only 1 citation for that.
 
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Your search - "jerry kalleh" - did not match any documents.
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Can I just check the rules for this.

"Mobilized language" gives one hit if enclosed in quotes (i.e. if the words need to appear together in that order) but 72,500 hits if they are not enclosed in quotes (i.e. a full search for both words appearing anywhere).

Is this allowed ?

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Thanks Bob, for pointing out that I am guilty of violating the RULES.

Nolo contendere.

My only excuse is ignorance ...

If you can direct me to the proper dropping-off place with my truckload of awards, diplomas, certificates, and trophies, I'll reluctantly but righteously relinquish them.

Thanks again, smartass! Razz
 
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Interestingly, I have found that sometimes the Google sites change within a few seconds. While it seems like I put in the exact same words in the exact same ways, I will sometimes come up with a different number of links.

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There is a British comedian called Dave Gorman who has a style that people either love or hate. His first TV series for example followed his adventures as he travelled all over the world trying to meet other people named Dave Gorman.

On Monday I went to see him in his new one man show "Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure" in which he told the story of how he attempted (albeit inadvertantly at first) to form a chain of meetings with ten consecutive "Googlewhacks" i.e people whose websites can be found via a Googlewhack. Each time he met one they had to find him two possible followers. Each time he hit a dead end (a dead link, an uncontactable web site owner or someone who didn't want to play) he had to start again.

For anyone who likes Dave Gorman it was a trully hilarious show - the funniest since "Are You Dave Gorman ?" and much better than "The Important Astrological Experiment."

The guy is quite clearly insane. Go to see the show if you live in England, weep that you missed it if you don't.

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I agree wholeheartedly about Dave Gorman. I loved "Are You Dave Gorman?" on BBC TV and enjoyed "The Important Astrological Experiment" slightly less, although it was still good.

I also agree that people either love or hate his style. I was staying with my brother and sister-in-law and, since I'd seen a couple of earlier episodes, I suggested we watch "Are You Dave Gorman?" one evening. They'd not seen it before. They just did not "get it". All through they were asking, "But why is he taking all this trouble? Why is he telling us about it in such detail?" Confused
 
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I knew I could do it !

I too am a Googlewhack.

Why should I let the toad work
Squat on my life ?
Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork
And drive the brute off ?
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