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	Boston.com / Business / How Google became a cultural phenomenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Google's the place people turn to in more than 80 languages more than 200 million times a day if they want to locate a long-lost friend, find a recipe for maple walnut mousse pie or research a business competitor on a different continent.
		Google is already working on a personalized search engine that "learns" what individuals like, find relevant or prefer to avoid.
		Google's Chief Technology Officer Craig Silverstein spoke last month of a future in which people could have "search pets" that are able to find the answer to tricky questions such as "What did my wife mean when she said that?"
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/04/29/how_google_became_a_cultural_phenomenon (841 words)

	Googlewhack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of two words--both in the dictionary, and without quotation marks--that returns a single result.
		Using a recently whacked word (as found in the Whack Stack) as a whack factor in a Googlewhack.
		Example: As of March 3, 2005, the search "adieu halitosi" produced only one result: arch (Although it now returns more matches, one of which is this article, the rest mirrors.) "Adieu halitosi" is not a true googlewhack, though, because "halitosi" does not link to answers.com.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Google_whacking (869 words)

	Google - Cultural Icon - M/Cyclopedia of New Media
		Two reasons often cited for Googleâ€™s popularity are its simplicity and the lack of advertising on it (Katz, I., 2004), as well as its ability to turn up accurate results quickly, with most searches requiring less then half a second to complete.
		Google has spawned a range of activities which include Google Whacking (http://www.googlewhack.com/) (Gebhardt, M., 2003), which challenges people to search for a combination of 2 words without quotation marks that will only turn up one result.
		Cooking with Google (http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001404.shtml): Users enter a few ingredients and the kind of recipe they are looking for, and Google will find a list of recipes.
	wiki.media-culture.org.au /index.php?title=Google_-_Cultural_Icon&printable=yes (804 words)

	ReidWise.Net: Google Whacking Google whacking is
		Google Whacking Google whacking is apparently the hot new 'sport' that geeks are playing over the internet.
		Google whacking is apparently the hot new 'sport' that geeks are playing over the internet.
		Google whacking, simply put, is the attempt to find that elusive query with two words (no quote marks) that produces a single solitary result.
	www.reidwise.net /mtarchives/000467.php (234 words)

	Google Whacking!
		Google's index of web pages is generally regarded as the largest of all the major search engines.
		This means that for most searches, it's not uncommon for Google to report millions or even tens of millions of pages containing your search terms.
		Google also is the arbiter of a whack's uniqueness.
	www.saskschools.ca /curr_content/info10/module20/lesson5b.html (325 words)

	Anil's Doublespeak:
		Google, the king of search world, the deity to whom we webmasters and web-users bow every day, has its fair share of haters.
		Google of course, is on its way to immortality by becoming a metaphor for search, and also spawning a culture of its own.
		Google washing and Google whacking are rituals of this sublime cult of the geeks.
	www.ecogito.net /anil/2003/06/google-watching.html (207 words)

	TCS Daily - Whacking Google
		Second, as Microcontent News points out, Google's stated policy isn't consistently applied (it couldn't be, or Google could never sell an ad).
		Though they've yet to officially change their position, Google may be coming around on this one too.
		Almost as soon as Edward Kasner had introduced "googol" to the world, another mathematician shot back with "googolplex" -- defined as ten to the power of googol -- a number so large, one physicist recently suggested it may be 500 years before we have a computer that could begin to contemplate it.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=040402B (1171 words)

	Oakland.pm: Review of "Google Hacks"
		Google is easily the leading search engine in terms of pages indexed (over 3 billion as of Dec. 31, 2002) and in terms of queries per day (250 million queries per day as of Feb. 2003).
		In my opinion, Google is also the best in terms of ease of use and the aesthetics of their user interface.
		The basic idea of Google Whacking is to find a simple two word query the returns exactly one result.
	oakland.pm.org /reviews/google.html (2256 words)

	Googlewhacking: The Search for The One True Googlewhack
		Those 35,000 confirmed whacks are not contributing to the Google database, nor will they influence your results there.
		Google's servers may balance resource allocation; perhaps they were busy at that instant doing core queries or indexing, rather than word definition lookups.
		However, they're great whacks, since the components are relatively well known, but mutually exclusive in their appearances.
	www.unblinking.com /heh/googlewhack.htm (3393 words)

	Google Scholar
		What it Does: In a nutshell, Google has built an algorithm that makes a calculated guess at what it thinks is scholarly content mined from the OPEN WEB, and then makes it accessible via the Google Scholar interface..Google is brilliant (that is, ingenious at marketing and trying new things)…” Kennedy and Price.
		It looks like Google’s bots are capable of reading bibliographical information in many different formats and generating database entries for resources that are cited in web-accessible documents, but that are not accessible on the web directly.
		Google is saying very little about how they are going to scan the books, but it is assumed they will do OCR indexing so texts will be searchable.
	www.stlawu.edu /library/google_scholar.html (630 words)

	And Now, Google Takes Flak Over Google Logo Doodle
		I explained Google's long history of doing these type of logos, which prompted her to ask if they were going to do anything for The Queen's 80th birthday (that's today; answer, a big no).
		Artist's family asks Google to take down today's 'painted' logo from the San Jose Mercury News covers how Google was asked to remove the logo, with copyright issues cited as the reason for the takedown request.
		Google Logo-Snubs England (and The US, California,...) has some background on who and what gets doodled, as the logos are called.
	blog.searchenginewatch.com /blog/060421-071127 (387 words)

	Going Ga Ga over Google!
		Google ignores common words and characters such as ‘where’ and ‘how’, as well as certain single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down the search without improving the results.
		Google analyzes the text on the page adjacent to the image, the image caption and dozens of other factors to determine the image content.
		Google has a long history of previewing technology to a small fraction of users before launching "official" beta versions available to everybody.
	www.computersathome.com /content/net_wise/web_journey/102090401.asp (1150 words)

	Bad Gas: The Google Non-whack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Google is very clever and everything but sometimes it's way off the mark.
		If you're feeling good to go, and you fancy knocking one out in the privacy of your open-plan office, be warned that the "image search" facility of the world's most used search engine can make matters a little tricky.
		Google has done too thorough a job on this one and spotted the "guest" in the URL at the top.
	badgas.co.uk /nonwhack (874 words)

	Guardian \| Beware a Google whacking
		Google potentially knows more about your habits than any government, especially if you sign up to its free email service complete with an astounding gigabyte of memory.
		And Google is being floated on the markets at a time when its major competitors such as Yahoo and Microsoft are spending big money to improve their own engines.
		But, while it is true that Google's likely market value is based on making real and substantial profits (unlike that of Netscape a decade ago), it is still a highly unusual company.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4987558-111020,00.html (595 words)

	eBlue, Sacra Blue News-Magazine Online, HardCopy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Google Hacks is currently the most comprehensive source of "how to" information on the world’s best tool for searching the web.
		One popular pastime is "Google Whacking." Try to run a search in which no results turn up.
		The programmers at Google are some of the most ingenious people at data indexing and retrieval.
	www.sacpcug.org /archives/0307/hc0703.html (669 words)

	Search Engine Showdown Blog: More Google Problems
		Gary Stock, founder of Google Whacking has posted information about recent strange problems at Google.
		In another unrelated (I assume) peculiarity, a search on Google for pages only on Google's own Web site (using site:www.google.com) and searching for the word "google" finds several results that are on completely different hosts.
		Google Inconsistencies page has been updated with these problems.
	www.searchengineshowdown.com /blog/2003/10/more_google_problems.shtml (154 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| The contenders for Google's throne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Although Google may still rule the world of search, suddenly there are numerous contenders hoping to break its dominance.
		Many businesses depend on being noticed via Google and are prepared to pay for ads associated with particular terms.
		There is also a growing suspicion that systems which rely solely on ranking webpages by their content, as Google does, will prove less and less useful over time.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/3557293.stm (682 words)

	Are you a secret Googlewhacker? \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Named after the popular Google search engine, Googlewhacks, and the game of finding them (or Googlewhacking), are the latest pursuit of legions of bored and increasingly obsessed Web surfers searching for the next big thing.
		The challenge comes from the size of Google's legendary database, which had recently indexed some three billion Web pages and is updated constantly.
		Thus, a Google search on an unusual word combination, which once turned up just one result, might now yield the original entry plus an entry for the page proclaiming the Googlewhack.
	zdnet.com.com /2100-1106-826128.html (836 words)

	The Googleplex Blog: Power Tends to Corrupt and Google Power Corrupts Abso-Googly
		Google the term google and you won't find any ads containing "google" (or "Google").
		In fact, "google" is one of the few terms you can search for on Google that produces absolutely no ad results.
		Google is particularly strict about reserving the term "google".
	www.braintique.com /research/mt-archives/000243.shtml (443 words)

	greyshirt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		google-whacking is the art of finding a search on google with two search terms that return only one result.
		to be valid, both terms must be underlined in google's status bar, indicating they can be found at dictionary.com.
		once found, you then link to it, thereby creating a second page in google's index with that combination.
	www.cs.uvm.edu /~dvanhorn/googlewhack.html (476 words)

	Word Lists and Spam Filtering - Google vs Yahoo
		This is quite possibly one of the best reads I've had on the topic of search engine optimization and Google vs Yahoo.
		The three academics insisted that because Google was returning more gibberish, it must be doing a better job.
		It's Google Whacking - the art of finding two words that produce just a single result from the search engine - which comedy writer Dave Gorman turned into a book and a stage show.
	www.marketingshift.com /2005/8/word-lists-and-spam-filtering-google.cfm (480 words)

	Rock:Paper:Scissors
		Google and the Mysterious Case of the 1969 Pagejackers.
		You've heard of the Google Bomb, Google Whacking, the Google Dance and Googlisms, but there's a new Google-word you might be interested in if you're losing your Google Juice.
		The problem seems to have been around since at least August 2003, and is commonly known as the Google 302 Pagejacking issue.
	radio.weblogs.com /0129670/2005/02/06.html (198 words)

	Pimplier Batgirls and Sawdusty Barmen \| The Register
		The trouble is that Google is returning pages which are nothing but great long lists of words as valid search results, when rarely, if ever, is this what the searcher is looking for.
		Current Whacks at the time of writing include " rhubarb underkill", "oxymoronically flakier", "overpaid brainworkers" - somewhat surprisingly - and, to our relief, there's only one web page in the world with the words "subhuman stepsiblings" close enough together to merit a hit.
		"Google has the advantage of knowing precisely what is in their corpus, and being able to call upon vast research and statistical data about what is - and what is not - legitimate text.
	www.theregister.com /2005/08/20/google_word_whack (952 words)

	Google, Apple and a Goth \| The Register
		It was noted that Google accounts for 90 per cent of German internet searches – a market share which would send regulators in most industries rushing to the lawyers.
		For many small businesses advertising through Google, and getting customers thanks to its search engine, is almost the entirety of their customers.
		Google's defence said decisions were made by algorhythm and subjective judgement and the judge seemed unlikely to force them to reveal very much more than that.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2006/07/07/weekly_7june (1337 words)

	Google Whacking
		Perusing the most recent 2,000 whacks is highly recommended if your brain is stuck and you need a little inspiration in your research.
		by writing the google whack you found, it is no longer a whack as it now has 2 more results refering to this website.
		The google whack can only be 2 words, no numbers, no qoutes and each word between 4 and 30 letters.
	hacks.oreilly.com /pub/h/207 (1905 words)

	AntiOnline - Befriending Google
		And no, Google hacking is not pwning Google's server in a 1337 manner, Google hacking is learning to get the results you want from a Google search, not thousands of irrelevant links.
		A google whack is a two-word query that returns one result.
		At this point, the basics of Google have been covered, and you should be a moderately good Googler.
	www.antionline.com /showthread.php?s=&threadid=264746 (1090 words)

	Slashdot \| Google Juice
		Google could use the same method of rating that they do now to raise the importance of pages to also demote weblogs in importance.
		Google has always seemed to be driven by a happy medium of civic duty and profit.
		Since Google bases the relevance of its search results on how many links there are to any page, any search for 'thrombosis' will likely show your home page as the number one search result, because you've got the word on your web page and dozens of links to your home page on other sites.
	slashdot.org /articles/02/03/13/141202.shtml?tid=95 (4886 words)

	Google Hacks, 2 - TechBookReport
		Google has changed - new services have been developed, including GMail and Desktop search - and its competitors in the search engine ecosystem have continued to evolve as well.
		Even seasoned Google veterans are likely to pick up useful pointers from the many hacks listed.
		While the book is packed with useful snippets of code that make use of the Google API or which screen scrape or otherwise automate activities it's the final chapter of the book which details of how to program the API in various languages, including Perl, PHP, Python, Java, C# and VB.NET.
	www.techbookreport.com /tbr0132.html (485 words)

	Google Community: Google Whacking
		The only problem is that the google search results are constantly changing also on most whacks google does not have a dictionary link.
		Google whacking is typing two word into google without inverted commas that only come out with one result that isn't a dictionary page or a word list.
		Google™ is a registered trademark of Google, Inc.
	www.googlecommunity.com /ntopic775.html (318 words)

	Googlewhacking: Rules for the Googlewhacker
		Note: When you search Google, you may be able to find more reliable Googlewhacks by prefixing each word in your Google search with a "+" (for example, +endothelial +velveeta).
		Whack always has submitted queries that require an exact match.
		That is, Whack always has prefixed both words with "+" to require their presence, which (later, serendipitously) also avoided any stemming by Google.
	www.googlewhack.com /rules.htm (543 words)

	Spitting Llamas » Blog Archive » Got Whack? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As I posted much earlier about Google Whacking, part of the game has come true.
		As with my posted google whack, Llama Esemplatic, now is un-whacked since this site also shows up making it no longer a solo entry.
		Teoma wishes to whack google in their junk.
	www.spittingllamas.com /archives/2002/04/05/got-whack (314 words)

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