Whacking my Google
Some endeavors are worth pursuing even if they are time consuming and difficult.
Others are an colossal waste of time.
There is a pastime called Google Whacking where you try to search google.com with exactly two words and try to get exactly one result. With Google’s indexing of 8 billion web pages, it is pretty difficult. You have to use real words and you cannot use quotes because that would be cheating. Even searching for oddball words like turgid schnitzel results in way too many hits.
Over the holidays Scarlett Johansson Googlewhacked on the Today show (see December 27th), so it must be socially acceptable to do in public. It must have been a slow newsday.
Because my main “time waster” website was undergoing weekend maintenance, I killed a few minutes whacking. I thought I found a winning combination but it turned out to be a false alarm because I had misspelled the second word. The website found was not in English.
But I did get lucky after 10 minutes and here is the proof:
Google-Whacked
I can now retire.
snarky chifforobe
Is it cheating if that exactly one answer comes from your own page? If not, then “nacifora butted” is a googlewhack, of course that’s because it’s a last name I invented for a story and the verb that follows.
Bzzt. “nacifora” is not in the dictionary.
Okay, okay. Now I get the rules of the game. And I found a real, legit, googlewhack: realpolitik toothsomeness. I’ve even recorded it in Googlewhack. Now thanks to this I have one hour less to do my English essay.