From the witty Jon @ silicon.com:
The latest game to sweep the web is called Googlewhacking.
The game involves searching Google's massive two-billion page database for two words that return a "Results 1 out of 1" message at the top of the page.
However, a Googlewhack doesn't remain one for long because players post the link on the game's website ensuring that it will consequently return two results.
All entries, or Googlefactors, must be verified via the dictionary.com website.
The Round-Up has better things to do than waste time playing silly games but for the record "portakabin monkey" got 30 hits, "Cheddar homunculus" got 10, while "slimy sandpaper" got a disappointing 712 - so it's not as easy as it sounds.
Click here http://www.silicon.com/a50923 to find out more - or to add any Googlewhackers you might find.
(If you play this game with your colleagues you get a fascinating, if occasionally frightening, insight into how their minds work. The silicon.com reporter who shouted: "I can't believe liquorice flagellation returns 29 results" is now being given a wide berth in the newsroom.)Research team -
go!
Had one of those just this morning, mav ... I don't want to register just for it so I give it to you free ... www.samstailor.com which is a tailor shop in Hong Kong which was subject of an article in today's email edition of the International Herald Tribune. (IHT.com) I Googled it and got just the one entry.
sorry, wow, no banana - the rules are "2 words with no punctuation" - it's a *lot harder than you might think. F'rinstance,
Custard Gorilla nets something over 800 hits...
The Truth is out there but it's mixed up with a BIG pile of other shite! 
"2 words with no punctuation"
Let's clear up these rules a bit. <custard gorilla> yields 855 hits but <custard-gorilla> yields none. Treating them as separate words gives you any site that has both words in it. Hyphenating (or quotating) the phrase requires that they occur one right next to each other.
OK, I went to the site. After running my Brit-English translation engine I discovered that quotating (and therefore probably hyphenating) is illegal.
Not now you hit on her
you hit on her
Turns out she's juggling the four encephalitic bartenders.
four encephalitic bartenders
And a partridge in a pear tree.
That's a parsnip, Keiva. And it's in a pantry!
too easy:
esoteric adfenestration - 1 hit
(actually®, there are bunches of words that work with adfenestration -- the trick is to find one word which appears nowhere else -- and there may be a whole mess of those at the wwftd site 8)
yeahbut®
didja read the rules? are your entries in the specified dictionary? Rules? Rules? We do...
encephalitic - 1,980 hits
barmaid - 39,800 hits
These could be scored by multiplying the individual hit counts, giving me a score of 78,804,000.
barmaid - 39,800 hits
These could be scored...heh! busy guy, Fong, busy guy.
The hit on <encephalitic barmaid> was in a review for a CD by the piano duo of Bruce Posner & Donald Garvelmann.
a CD by the piano duo of Bruce Posner & Donald Garvelmannwow - I gotta get me a copy of *that one!
piano duo CD
You can find it real easy, mav. Just google <encephalitic barmaid>. It's the first hit.
Ok, Max give us a button to close the internet.. and Mav has search engines scouring the internet for esoteric odd ball hits, and things are slowing to a crawl..
or is just me? (mind you i now have a 1.5 GHz processor!)
1 hit (and word-related)
also australopithecine kumquat
australopithecine plenipotentiary [appears in a list of all words of 15 or more letters]
honorificabilitudinity
Bzzzzzzz! No entry found for honorificabilitudinity in the dictionary.
No entry found for Quordlepleen in the dictionary.
Bzzzzzzz! No entry found for honorificabilitudinity in the dictionary.Bzzzzzzz back!
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestword "For example, the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas (honourableness) was listed by some old dictionaries in the English form honorificabilitudinity (22 letters), but it has never really been in use."My all-time favorite poem,
Barney McGee by Richard Hovey, uses that word. The poem unfortunately is not available on-line. I am tempted to recite ...
But faldage, if you have any doubt, substitute a variant form, in the phrase
honorificabilitudinitatibus earlobes -- and you'll get a tremendous giggle by checking the site which
that one hits.
Surely you would not dispute
that word?
[thanks, tsuwm!]
All entries, or Googlefactors, must be verified via the dictionary.com website.
You did enjoy the hit, didn't you?
You want nits? Nit right back atcha:
must be verified VIA the dictionary.com website.In dictionary.com, list the dictionaries which that site countenances
(by subclicking to "Web Directory", thence "References", and thence "Dictionaries"). Among them click to "vocabulary lists" and, from those lists, select "Grandiloquent Dictionary", in which you will find the word in question. [scratching nits -e
]
collapsium artichoke
lutefisk echidna
Surprisingly (or maybe not so much...) budget regicide had 251 results. I thought I had a winner there.
Rats.
via the dictionary.com
That was from mav's rewriting. The googlewhack site itself says All words must appear on www.dictionary.com in order for your Googlewhacker to be valid. They got enough dictionaries on that site to choke a he hog. No, I think it's clear here that the intent of this rule is to exclude any words not found by entering them in the little box at the top of the page.
The googlewhack site itself says ...
citation, please? Can't follow the newly-stated rules if I can't find them.
By the way, would a citation to a site be a "sitation"?
That's a keeper, Fibes. Scores 634,520,000!
Collapsium ain' on dictionary.com.
Respected faldage, your link immediately clicks over to a different URL, on which there's no such statment that I can find.
But per your new rule, wordsmith faldage, I can offer the above emphasized phases, plus hunk faldage Elizabeth, your choice!, or a host of other adjectival combinations. C'mon, friend; let's not suck the fun out of it!
link immediately clicks over to a different URL
Beats me. Doesn't do it for me. The rules, from the site:
The rules of Googlewhacking' are simple. Type two words into the search field on Google and hit 'Google Search'. If the search returns with 'Results 1 - 1 of 1' then you win. If it finds more than one site on which those two words appear, you don't.
To further complicate matters, you can't use inverted commas to limit your search, as the words can appear anywhere on the site. It's not as easy as it sounds.
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All words must appear on www.dictionary.com in order for your Googlewhacker to be valid.
I submitted a few, but no word back yet.
c-a-l-l-i-p-y-g-e-a-n _____ i-n-u-n-d-a-t-i-o-n
q-o-t-i-d-i-a-n _____ b-l-o-v-i-a-t-i-o-n
i-n-v-i-g-o-r-a-t-i-n-g _____ o-m-p-h-a-l-o-s-k-e-p-s-i-s
It might be more interesting and perhaps more in the spirit of a word game to find pairs which are either complementary or ironic.
k
Ooh! I finally got one of my own!
colloidal regicide
(I
knew regicide had to be a golden ticket one way or t'other!)
That's fun! Now I know where all the time I'm saving from the new AWAD server will be wasted...
Later... smocking apotheosis
See, I told you!
Later still... perambulatory isthmus
*Somebody* has found a new hobby...
This is, I presume, the gentle art of killing kings on the cheap?
But of course!
You know, I'm seeing that even if the idea isn't a Google-whack winner (i.e. Budget Regicide, Corrugated Epiphany, Sophomoric Cuneiform, Flatulent Parallelogram, Trapeze Underpants), this is a fine way to come up with some really surreal band names.
or to start a new business, of course ...
philanthropic octothorpe
bloviate timorously
escargot uvula returned 1- 1 of about 2. It only showed one result. What's that mean?
On my second try...
trilobite fricasee...deliberately misspelled here (sans one "s" so as to not add a hit).
Does this mean
I WIN!...?(ahem)
You already W'ON. straight-face for about 2 seconds-e
I got one! by posting here, it should give me the one of one necessary to fullfill rules.
haiku velleity
First find nought of nought:
Then post both strange words here, and
Wordsmith will get hits.
Maybe it's a case of velleity.....
It still hazn't googled as a hit. Hope it doesn't take all day, wishing dreamily-e
Howye fokes
I typed in "gallantted wins" and got 1 of 1! Imagine! Do I win a prize now or somethin?
Speaken of prizes, did ye all see me on the telly the other week, at the Golden Gob awards? I won furst prize.
Have ta dash now and polish it up.
Be seein ye
GallantTed - JOURNEYMAN
the naughts
Connie's coinage isn't coming up, as a 'hit' yet I mean. Is wordsmith immune to Google?
(and by the way, Connie, do you have a good recipe for trilobite fricas[s]ee?) [not-segueing into a food-thread-e, but if anybody'd have this, you would!..prolly with lots of mushrooms!]
and wine. Don't forget the champagne and wine.I finally remembered what song that line is from. "I Will Be There" by Van Morrison, Ooops, I meant St. Dominic's Preview, not Astral Weeks
This game is too easy. All you have to do is take a few recent wwd's and
after eliminating those not in the proper dictionary per faldage] try googling all possible pairs.
Most pairs won't work, but many will. For example, if I haven't slipped:
gonzo winebibber
esemplastic camorra
winebibber ethnologyTo make it more challenging, one might look for a two-word phrase actually makes some kind of sense, as in
respected faldage, wordsmith faldage, hunk faldage. And even better, a phrase where the neither word of the pair is ridiculously obscure.
The above faldage-phrases are complimentary, but [evil grin -e] I am now searching for phrases of invective.
Maybe it will hit
now that it is a title
if not I am lost
Good heavens, I found one--the only match was from that daggoned on-line text dictionary thing: sashaying salubriously. And if it ain't in the right dictionary--I don't care!
f-y-r-d b-a-t-i-k
f-j-o-r-d a-r-e-o-p-a-g-u-s
Bingley
This one was good! A real one hit wonderHi, Musick! Haiku Hippopotomi
Yeahbut©, if you spell hippopotami right you get 44 hits.
find one word which appears nowhere else
Which brings us to my proposal for a revised scoring system. If we use my previous suggestion of multiplying the single word hit numbers of the components all you need do is find a word which appears nowhere else and combine it with the giving you a score of 2,420,000,000. Therefore, my amended scoring plan is: The score for a googlewhack is the lower of the two numbers of hits of each single word.
I agree, faldage. That makes it more challenging: two words neither of which is rare, but appear together only once.
Best I can do at this point is longwinded k-v-e-t-c-h": 1 hit
(9840 hits & 10,600 hits for the components)
It doesn't seem to return the exact number of hits, but an approximate number. Assuming I understand your scoring method correctly,
c-a-llypigian i-n-undation scores 1,030 on 1st word.
i-n-vigorating o-m-phaloskepsis scores 780 on the 2nd word.
b-o-mbastic v-e-rbicide scores 406 on the second word.
(haven't submitted this one yet, though)
My best so far is
q-u-otidian b-l-oviation scoring a 322 on the second word.
k
You want the lower score to be as high as possible! I like it!
Okay, here's one:
f-a-l-l-o-p-i-a-n antigravity, 74,100 and 21,000 respectively, for a final score of 21,000.
k
I'm not sure what principle is at play here, but there's no need to disguise words with gratuitous hyphens for fear of the charm being broken - I just regoogled perambulatory isthmus to test my theory, and it didn't pick up my nonchalant mention a few posts above... I don't know if we're guarded by some sacred force field or if it's just the function of the Board.
a final score of 21,000 well done, fiend!
A worthy competitor!
Giving the Fiend full credit for his atomic-physics idea (and flattering by imitation):
shakespearian n-ucleon
my guess is it takes the google bots at least a few hours and perhaps a few days to pick up new stuff.
Nitpicker
How about synchronous velleity, then?
I got one hit, I spelled them both right, and the site is busy, so I haven't been able to post it