I found my first Googlewhack!
If you don't know what a Googlewhack is, you should look it up on Wikipedia. Basically, it's a Google search query consisting of two words which only turns up one result. It's harder than it sounds.
After changing my away message this evening, I decided to look up the definition of one of the words I was using. Somehow, the idea of a Googlewhack came to mind, and I put in one other word, and whammo! I had myself a Googlewhack.
Now, the funny thing about Googlewhacks is that they cease to exist as soon as you post the two words on your blog, because then Google indexes your page and you become result #2. Since this royally sucks, I'm not gonna do that. However, I'm going to take a screenshot of the occasion and post it here, so I have permanent proof of the accomplishment. If you want to verify the results for yourself, just look at the image. However, I do request that you not forget the nature of Googlewhacks in your moments of virginal Googlewhack delirium. Please do not post these two words in plain text on your own blog/website/internet dumping ground. I thank you in advance.
After changing my away message this evening, I decided to look up the definition of one of the words I was using. Somehow, the idea of a Googlewhack came to mind, and I put in one other word, and whammo! I had myself a Googlewhack.
Now, the funny thing about Googlewhacks is that they cease to exist as soon as you post the two words on your blog, because then Google indexes your page and you become result #2. Since this royally sucks, I'm not gonna do that. However, I'm going to take a screenshot of the occasion and post it here, so I have permanent proof of the accomplishment. If you want to verify the results for yourself, just look at the image. However, I do request that you not forget the nature of Googlewhacks in your moments of virginal Googlewhack delirium. Please do not post these two words in plain text on your own blog/website/internet dumping ground. I thank you in advance.
Labels: bored, computers, fun, Internet, just-for-kicks
posted by Arathon at 00:32
4 Comments:
Hmmmm....I didn't even know such a thing existed. =P Congratulations dear! I love you!
Hi. Thats not a Googlewhack. Both words have to be highlighted in blue and underlined on the top right corner of the screen. Sorry. I found your page while trying to determine if Googlewhacks still exist since the internet is now so full of "word lists." (and I can't find a googlewhack, which obviously means they don't exist any more). You should go to googlewhack.com and register your whack! Sometimes the blue highlighting comes and goes, for reasons i don't understand. I'm sure its a googlewhack, but the particular time that you entered, it TECHNICALLY wasn't.
Rosemary;
Thanks for the info; actually, I already knew this. I just decided that I don't subscribe to "Google's view of the dictionary". According to Google, the second word is not a valid word; however, I have found it used in multiple places on and off the internet, so as far as I'm concerned, it counts. =) At least, I don't think that Googlewhack.com has the divine right to create rules for the game. ;-)
You have to obey the rules! Otherwise it's just easy.
Just keep trying, there are unfound Googlewahcks everywhere!
I found a couple recently and registered them at the whack stack at googlewahck.com to make sure they were legit and that, for me, is reward in itself.
Check mine out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennuttall/2114922605/
All the best,
Ben
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