Cornell Finch

I Found A Googlewhack!

Paramount Comedy 1 in the UK ran Dave Gorman’sIf you get the chance to see Dave on TV or live, do it. He’s superb! Googlewhack stage show last night. I have seen it three or four times but the way he tells his story is superb. My wife admitted that she spent 90 minutes Googlewhacking this morning with no results. I spent 20 minutes this afternoon and I found one.

Googlewhacking is the art (or sport) of choosing two random words, inserting them into Google and getting only one result back.

Finding a Googlewhack has rules:

1. Your two Googlefactors must exist in Google’s view of this dictionary. Not your view; Google’s view! Google does the work, and Google has the final word! In the blue bar atop your Google results, accepted terms are linked, and so appear ‘underlined.’ No line, no link = Googlejack!
2. Google also is the arbiter of a whack’s uniqueness. Look to the right end of the blue bar atop your Google results. If you see “Results 1 – 1 of (any number),’ you found exactly one hit = Googlewhack!
3. Google shows you an excerpt of the page you whacked. Look at that text. If it’s merely a list of words (such as a bibliography, concordance, encyclopedia, glossary, thesaurus, dictionary, domain names, or plain old machine-generated random garbage), No Whack For You!

Well my “whack” fits all of these rules from what I can see.

Obviously if I typed the two words in clear text here then Google will spider it and it will no longer be a Googlewhack! Click the image to see a larger version, write down the words and go to Google and type them in. Or not!