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Old 10-12-2006, 9:45 AM   #1
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Googlewhacking
Just bored at work and tried to do some googlewhacking.

The closest I have managed to get is 21 results (without cheating and putting an entry from a googlewhack site!)

Has anyone ever managed to do one, and if so, with what words?
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Re: Googlewhacking
What is googlewhacking?
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Old 10-12-2006, 11:28 AM   #3
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What is googlewhacking?
Explanation here
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Old 10-12-2006, 11:39 AM   #4
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Just bored at work and tried to do some googlewhacking.

The closest I have managed to get is 21 results (without cheating and putting an entry from a googlewhack site!)

Has anyone ever managed to do one, and if so, with what words?
this is going to sound so fake, but i have done half a dozen or so, but cant think of any right now.

just find a word you have never heard of in the dictionary and then another, and try those two words!
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Old 10-12-2006, 11:42 AM   #5
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Re: Googlewhacking
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Just bored at work and tried to do some googlewhacking.

The closest I have managed to get is 21 results (without cheating and putting an entry from a googlewhack site!)

Has anyone ever managed to do one, and if so, with what words?
JUST FOUND ONE!!

try

'mastercating' (to chew) and 'sack' self explanatory!

cool....third attempt this morning!
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Old 10-12-2006, 11:47 AM   #6
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Re: Googlewhacking
Just got one myself
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Old 10-12-2006, 4:54 PM   #7
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Just bored
Quite an understatement, if you were that bored you resorted to googlewhacking.
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Old 10-12-2006, 4:59 PM   #8
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Re: Googlewhacking
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JUST FOUND ONE!!

try

'mastercating' (to chew) and 'sack' self explanatory!

cool....third attempt this morning!
Actually the word is 'masticating' so that counts more as a spellingwhack I think
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Old 10-12-2006, 5:00 PM   #9
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Quite an understatement, if you were that bored you resorted to googlewhacking.
also been playing yeti sports and the majority of games on miniclip
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Old 10-12-2006, 5:03 PM   #10
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Just got one myself
What kind of a word is 'eveningwears'???

You're not American are you?
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Old 10-12-2006, 5:14 PM   #11
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Re: Googlewhacking
I will admit, I did cheat with that word from the googlewhack website.

But I added the second word
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Old 11-12-2006, 1:27 PM   #12
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Re: Googlewhacking "have you tried wildcards"
just wondering do you all know about wild cards and search engines for those who don't suppose you were looking for a carpet OK

in the search engine you write "carpet" those exclamation marks tell Google or whoever that you want to find that particular item only.

Sorry for those who a rolling there eyes and thinking "Kin hell " must be someone who who dose not know.
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Re: Googlewhacking
Is THIS a googlewhack?
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Old 11-12-2006, 1:47 PM   #14
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Is THIS a googlewhack?
Nope
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Old 11-12-2006, 1:49 PM   #15
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Re: Googlewhacking
why not?
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Old 11-12-2006, 1:51 PM   #16
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Re: Googlewhacking "have you tried wildcards"
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just wondering do you all know about wild cards and search engines for those who don't suppose you were looking for a carpet OK

in the search engine you write "carpet" those exclamation marks tell Google or whoever that you want to find that particular item only.

Sorry for those who a rolling there eyes and thinking "Kin hell " must be someone who who dose not know.
sorry to be pedantic...but they are "quotation marks"
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Old 11-12-2006, 1:58 PM   #17
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why not?
because trainspotting doesn't have 3 Ts in it :-) (well not together anyway)
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Old 11-12-2006, 1:58 PM   #18
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Re: Googlewhacking
Just got one! "Floccinaucinihilipilification act"
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Old 11-12-2006, 2:02 PM   #19
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Just got one! "Floccinaucinihilipilification act"
I got 11,200 results for that.
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Old 11-12-2006, 2:05 PM   #20
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I suspect that quotation marks are not allowed when google whacking otherwise it woudl pretty easy
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Old 11-12-2006, 2:11 PM   #21
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I suspect that quotation marks are not allowed when google whacking otherwise it woudl pretty easy
Aye - double quotes mean the items in them must appear as you have typed them, ie next to each other. All you have to do then is go through words that are extremely unlikely to appear together and see if a combination hits.

You have to pick two words that are spelt correctly and not in any kind of quotation - that generate a single site hit ......

...... and to be honest is it nearly impossible due to the number of sites that contain entire dictionary lists on one page.

All those posted so far are invalid due to spelling mistakes or restricted searching.
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So .... Anything wrong with this one ?
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that sure looks like one!
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that sure looks like one!
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So .... Anything wrong with this one ?
Nope

Unless you have the dictionary definition of tasukette ?


Gravitomagnetism hatbox

^ both in the dictionary and not stolen from anyone else
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Its a small female tasuk.
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Old 11-12-2006, 2:52 PM   #27
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why not?
You're supposed to enter two valid English words that result in a single hit in Google. The response "Did you mean..." isn't a hit, it's an error message, because you put three 't's in "trainspottting scramblers"

Actually you put four "t"s - but you know what I mean
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Just got one! "Floccinaucinihilipilification act"
Oh bugger
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