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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!
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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.
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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! 
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"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.
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Not now you hit on her 
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you hit on her
Turns out she's juggling the four encephalitic bartenders.
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four encephalitic bartenders
And a partridge in a pear tree.
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That's a parsnip, Keiva. And it's in a pantry!
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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)
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