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	Googlewhack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although he never wrote his novel, he did eventually write a book about his "Googlewhack adventure" which went on to be a Sunday Times #1 best seller in the UK and has also been published in the U.S. and Canada.
		Googlewhackers have developed their own vocabulary to describe the game, inventing most of it early in Googlewhack history (2002 to early 2003).
		A problem/dilemma arises when a person finds a Googlewhack and subsequently reports it somewhere on the web: the Googlewhack will no longer be viable, as the page where it is reported will probably be indexed by Google, rendering the Googlewhack obsolete, unless it is blocked by robots.txt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Googlewhacking (869 words)

	Resources & Activities: New Words
		Googlewhacking is a game which has captured the imaginations of web surfers worldwide, the term being used on both sides of the Atlantic and adopted into many other languages.
		Googlewhacker, the name coined for those who engage in this pursuit, is to see the words “Results 1-1 of 1” appear on their screen after inputting a search query.
		Googlewhack: no quotes can be used in the search term, the component words must be listed in an online word list or dictionary, and the search result must relate to a real article and not just a list of words.
	www.macmillandictionary.com /New-Words/040220-Googlewhacking.htm (427 words)

	Google what?
		For example, "possum flatulence," which is actually a googlewhack attempt my editor made a few weeks ago, yields 911 hits.
		Googlewhacking is as addicting as it is frustrating.
		The only reason I got away with googlewhacking on the job was because my research was critical to this article.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/pop/articles/0316googlewhack16.html (499 words)

	Googlewhacking - a Whatis.com definition
		Googlewhacking is the challenging pursuit of searching the popular Google search engine with a two-word or more search argument that will produce exactly (no less and no more than) one result.
		Although Googlewhacking gained fame with two-word combinations, it is easier to achieve a Googlewhack with three words (hint: use two words to narrow down to a small number of results, then add a third word to the search argument to narrow down to one).
		Googlewhacking can easily be confused with Googling, the use of Google to locate people and information about them.
	searchsecurity.techtarget.com /gDefinition/0,294236,sid19_gci809196_alpT,00.html (224 words)

	The Trail Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		You're a Googlewhacker, and one of those who have experienced this utterly random trend that promises to sweep the nation.
		Googlewhacking was started by Gary Stock (a random computer programmer and webmaster) in Jan. 2002, and has since been popularized by Dave Gorman's (a random British stand up comedian) "Googlewhack Adventure." So lets get down to the nitty-gritty of it, shall we?
		The Googlewhacking gods were not with me, however, and over an hour later - after using words like "badminton," "microcentrifuge," "superfluous," "cantaloupe," "llama" and "ailurophobe," among others - I had yet to find a Googlewhack.
	asups.ups.edu /trail/Articles/DispForm.aspx?ID=413&Source=http://asups.ups.edu/trail/opinions/default.aspx) (290 words)

	What is Googlewhack? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		Googlewhacking is the name given to finding such a search result, and is considered to be a “web sport”.
		One problem facing Googlewhackers, is that when a googlewhack is found and reported on the web, this means your query will no longer count as a googlewhack since the page it was reported on will most likely be indexed by Google, thus creating more than one search result for your Googlewhack.
		Googlewhacking was created by Gary Stock in January 2002 and has become a popular 'web sport'.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/G/Googlewhack.html (235 words)

	cooltech.iafrica.com \| tech news Let's go Googlewhacking!
		Googlewhacking, however, is not as innocuous as it might sound - you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find a combination of words that produce only one result.
		There is even a scoring system for those who love scores - once you have found your googlewhack do a search for each of the two words that you used, but this time seperately.
		The concept of googlewhacking was devised by Gary Stock, a man with clearly a lot of time on his hands.
	cooltech.iafrica.com /technews/891758.htm (709 words)

	'Googlewhacking' mixes slots, Web searches and Scrabble - workopolis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Called "googlewhacking," the game's goal is to pick two words that appear together in one -- and only one -- of the 2,073,418,204 Web sites that are catalogued by Google.
		Googlewhacking is virus-like in another way -- it can be hard to get it out of your system, Mr.
		Stock has only a few basic rules for googlewhacking: Only two words can be used; they must appear in the listing of words at Dictionary.com, a Web site associated with Google; and the Web site cannot be just a listing of words.
	globeandmail.workopolis.com /servlet/News/fasttrack/20020202/RGOOG (573 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / One-hit wonder
		Named after the Internet search engine, Googlewhacking is a neologism that refers to a game growing in popularity around the world among people with entirely too much time on their hands.
		Googlewhackers sometimes rely on science to come up with such whacks as ''naughty micropaleontologist" or on food to produce ''unicycle beansprout." Others employ idioms, as in ''evisceration brewskies," or ''cromulent mcjobs."
		Although Googlewhackers are largely anonymous, Joy Begbie, 32, of Somerville has risen to Whack Stack prominence for dozens of Googlewhacks, ''knackwurst gaming" among the more imaginative.
	www.boston.com /ae/games/articles/2005/02/17/one_hit_wonder (419 words)

	Rediff Guide to the Net: Features: Searching for the One
		In a matter of weeks, Googlewhacking has gone from being one man's idea of fun to a 'wonderful new sport' that has captured the imagination of Web searchers, bloggers and even the media.
		Gary Stock, who coined the term and created Googlewhacking, was unaware of One Hit Wonders when he first launched the game.
		Googlewhacking has all the positive aspects that a 'competition' should have (a challenge, fun, a sense of sharing and 'winning'), with none of the negative aspects that are increasingly common today (a fight, opposition, a sense of taking and 'losing').
	www.rediff.com /search/2002/feb/06whack.htm (1851 words)

	Googlewhacking: The Search for The One True Googlewhack
		David "JOHOwhacker" Weinberger's Journal qualifies as the first daypopwhack of the term "googlewhack." (Whaddya want from me? I do searchy stuff for a living!) That is, the great engine over at DayPop, finds 'googlewhacking' in Dave's blog, and nowhere else.
		For example, a recent googlewhack header did not provide the dictionary link to 'linux,' although the word is legitimate.
		Googlewhackers around the world now have sent me several hundred proposals - and only a few of these folks even mention a 'score.' This confirms the obvious: finding is fun; scoring is competitive.
	www.unblinking.com /heh/googlewhack.htm (3393 words)

	The International Education Webzine: Googlewhacking -- Where Serious Wordplay Meets Serious Searching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In my role as "tech guy" for schools, I've found that it's really important to stay up with the latest trends in the use of cyberspace, and you may remember an earlier article for iteachnet that told you about Blogs and Blogging, or the article a couple of months ago on domain-napping and porn-napping.
		Open http://www.google.com, and enter into the search box two unrelated words (neophyte iconoclast, for example); chances are, Google will return to you hundreds or thousands or even millions of pages that have both those words on them (neophyte iconoclast returns only 175).
		And one of the few rules for Googlewhacking is that your Googlefactors must exist in the dictionary at dictionary.com.
	members.iteachnet.org /webzine/article.php?story=20020217230404858&mode=print (729 words)

	Googlewhack Page
		Googlewhacking is the art (science?) of finding a two-word search term that yields one, and only one, search result from Google's Search Engine.
		A googlewhack occurs when you find a combination of two words that only exist on one page in all of googledom.
		Dave Gorman started googlewhacking to avoid thinking about his problems, and before he knew it he was deep into a challenge from another David Gorman (who he located by, of course, googleing his own name).
	www.sss-mag.com /googlewhack.html (757 words)

	The Observer \| UK News \| When Google puts a world out of whack
		Rather than being characters in some new work of science fiction, they are examples of a craze that has taken the internet by storm.
		Googlewhacking, the search for 'Result 1-1 of 1' on the internet's favourite search engine, has become a pastime for everyone from bored office workers to lexicographers and even Nasa scientists.
		Gorman immediately set about trying to find other googlewhacks, and soon came across one on the website womenanddogsuk.co.uk, a site devoted to pictures of women with their canines.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,1071173,00.html (570 words)

	googlewhacking Neil - Topic Powered by eve community
		May 27, 2004 01:43 AM Neil's journal scores a googlewhack with mascaraing stardust (and, I'm sure also with mascaraing _ (_ = many other words including springer) www.googlewhack.com
		June 04, 2004 11:27 PM Here are some more: giantism zenda, courgettes goofs, and byronic rubberier- there is something very satisfying about googlewhacking a favorite author's weblog.
		September 29, 2004 10:25 PM A googlewhack is two words (both defined by dictionary.com) which when typed into google with no quotes return a result of one website which is not a wordlist.
	neilgaimanboard.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/752608726/m/98010669311 (582 words)

	A New Sport for Searchers: Googlewhacking
		Stock lays out the rules for keeping score: One point for a pure googlewhack, meaning a single result for your query; one point if you learn something; and a bonus point if you "laugh even more" at the results.
		The irony of Googlewhacking, however, is that success actually breeds failure, so to speak, for when you find a whack and report it online, that page will soon be crawled by Google and the Googlewhack will lose its uniqueness.
		And for the true maniacs of Googlewhacking, yes there is a place for you also on the Web.
	siliconvalley.internet.com /news/article.php/3531_963541 (497 words)

	Googlewhacking keeps comic hopping
		Adventure, that chronicled his obsession with Googlewhacking and his globe-straddling quest to meet others involved with the obscure Net game.
		Hardly equal to finding a cure for cancer, but he's a clever (some might say nutty) guy and the book is very, very funny.
		Gorman is bringing the piece to the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Oct. 6 for a run that continues through Oct. 16.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/pop/articles/1002googlewhack1002.html (570 words)

	JOHO - February 11, 2002
		Googlewhacking — The Inside Story: A craze, a phase, a plan, Panama.
		A googlewhack is a pair of words that when searched for on Google (not as a phrase) returns one and only one hit.
		Googlewhacking has really taken off, with Gary showing up on everything from the BBC to NPR.
	www.hyperorg.com /backissues/joho-feb11-02.html (6058 words)

	Dave Gorman - Googlewhack Adventure
		A googlewhack is what happens when two words are entered in to Google and it comes back with one and only one hit.
		At the time, googlewhacking seemed to be a pleasant enough distraction.
		The book was a number one best seller in the UK so while I still haven't written a novel as such, at least the publishers and I are getting on quite well these days.
	www.davegorman.com /googlewhack.htm (997 words)

	PomeRantz » Blog Archive » Googlewhacking Is Good For You
		Crazy as it sounds, Googlewhacking may be good for your mental health.
		The elation at discovery of a Googlewhack is brief, for registering the phrase on the Googlewhack site means, by definition, that it appears on two Web pages and, therefore, is no longer a Googlewhack.
		This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005 at 2:21 pm and is filed under Information Science, Technology, Google.
	www.ibiblio.org /pomerantz/blog/?p=124 (261 words)

	Googlewhacking - The Art of the Googlewhack
		Googlewhacking is a sport that is as competitive as Olympic Rowing, Pentathlon, Heptathlon and any other 'tathlon' that you care to mention.
		Googlewhacking is the art of putting two words (no quotes) into that most friendly of search engines Google.com e.g chair eaters - and trying to return a single web result.
		In any case the whole point is that googlewhacking requires a sneakier, more abstract frame of mind then the average seeker of truth on the google gravy train.
	www.firstscience.com /SITE/editor/031_ramblings_07112003.asp (4254 words)

	hitormiss.org: Googlewhacking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Once you post your googlewhack, it is quickly indexed and reduces the value.
		Perhaps that is the point, to be the first and only one to find the googlewhack.
		I saw that you’re into googlewhacking, and just wanted to point you to my site, which makes the game a lot more fun: http://www.googlewhacker.com.
	qf.hitormiss.org /2002/01/24/googlewhacking (556 words)

	Googlewhacking (Linguistics)
		"Googlewhacking imposes few rules: no proper nouns, no words from website word lists, and each word must be found at dictionary.com, which can be clicked from the Google page".
		Googlewhacking was the subject of one contest last winter.
		It's a great book from a man who's 'lived the Googlewhack dream', as it were.
	www.proz.com /topic/29573 (1070 words)

	BBC - Stoke and Staffordshire - Dave Gorman
		A googlewhack appears when two words are entered into Internet search engine Google that yield only one result from the billions of pages scanned.
		Before he knew it, via a coincidental encounter with a friend and fellow Dave Gorman and a spectacular New Year that landed him at Heathrow clutching a ticket to Washington DC, he had been challenged to initiate a chain of 10 googlewhacks and meet each constituent whacker.
		The rest is history, and off he went, on his quest to discover these unique events and the people that care about them.
	www.bbc.co.uk /stoke/stage/2004/davegorman.shtml (793 words)

	Have you Googlewhacked? \| CNET News.com
		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.
		What's more, people who submit their Googlewhacks to Web sites devoted to the practice are in essence creating one more entry on the Google search page.
		At times, Stock said, Googlewhackers have become "unpleasantly competitive," trying to assign a complex point system to their finds using an algorithm that values certain words in a Googlewhack over others.
	news.com.com /2100-1023-825602.html (684 words)

	One Hit Wonders predates Googlewhacking (kottke.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One Hit Wonders is a search engine game that dates from late 1996 where players try to find two-word submissions to Altavista that receive only one hit.
		This predates Googlewhacking by a good 5 years.
		OHW appears to have a superior scoring system as well, rewarding players for more common words.
	www.kottke.org /02/06/one-hit-wonders-predates-googlewhacking (151 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rather than being characters in some new work of science fiction, they are examples of a craze that has taken the Internet by storm … Googlewhacking, the search for “Result 1-1 of 1” on the Internet’s favourite search engine, has become a pastime for everyone from bored office workers to lexicographers and even NASA scientists.
		Though web enthusiasts have been searching odd combinations of words for many years, the term Googlewhacking was first coined in 2002 by Gary Stock, a US entrepreneur of web design.
		The terms whacking, whack and whacker, not to be confused with the original meaning of the verb whack and its derivatives, are also used as shorter alternatives for Googlewhacking, Googlewhack and Googlewhacker.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/specials/HotWords/pnword3.htm (212 words)

	Googlewhacking - Unified Science Fiction and Fantasy Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Googlewhacking - by Arislyn on 15:07 23 Dec 2003
		It is the illustrious search for a Google query of two words that turns up one, and only one, result.
		It's all about showing the vastness of the 'net, the way the beast changes in such a short period (after all, a successful whack will only remain as such for a short while once it hits the website) and it's a way to have fun with words.
	www.shadowdark.org /ib/Googlewhacking_8190-1.php (134 words)

	JS Online:Googlewhacking sweeps Net
		Sarah Kozar, songwriter, painter and lead singer for the band Sixty-Watt Sarah, uses her accordion as inspiration for a game of Googlewhacking.
		The goal of Googlewhacking is to plunk two words, rare and disparate enough, into the Google search engine and get only one page returned.
		Sarah Kozar, a songwriter and lead singer in the local band Sixty-Watt Sarah, is a bit Lucinda Williams with a good dose of Aretha Franklin and Patsy Cline.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/gen/mar02/25363.asp (1115 words)

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