Googlewhacking

Not as dirty as it sounds, I swear...

What the hell is Googlewhacking?

In a nutshell, it's searching Google for two words, hoping to end up with only one result.

[DEAD LINKS] Of course, according to this site, there's a little more to it than that. It's worth a look if you want to do it properly, because if you do it right, you can record your whack on The Whack Stack.

Any successes?

Russ's successes

• scrotum dreadnoughts
• pseudopod platypuses
• priapism ziti
• nymphae oneiromancy
• nipples tesselate
• eructation sepulchres
• epistolic scarlet
• fermenter spackle [inspired by Chez Brett!]
• vulvovaginal tetrahedron
• syzygy sphincters
• penile ingenues
• morbid rotisseries
• eructate schoolmarm
• lambasted knackwurst
• discombobulating seedless [inspired by a Seinfeld episode]
• titrates farts
• usury codpieces
• sanctified crawlspaces
• creches gelignite
• valkyrie lagomorphs
• fluorescing affluence
• hallucinogenic tracheotomies
• sapphic gentlewomen
• seraphic frottage
• eccentric picklepuss
• humongous muffulettas
• swive joyously
• milking iguanodons
• lollypops dendrites
• messianic ambisexual
• recidivistic pauper
• shimmied contagiously
• bespectacled jayhawker
• somersaulting widdershins
• pulchritudinous greasepaint
• herbaceous amphigory
• idempotent harlots
• callipygous cheerleaders
• synaesthesia tintinnabulation
• spittoons baboons [but someone already found this one, dangit]
• psychotropics denouement
• rambunctious fellahin
• hopscotched feta

A comment or two...

Googlewhacking is a harsh mistress... If you come up with a result on a known "dictionary page", it won't count. But if you come up with two results, one being on a dictionary page, it also won't count. So dictionary pages are the bane of a googlewhacking.

I think the ideal googlewhack would be one with two reasonably common words that have, for some reason, only appeared together once on a web page. There are too many entries in the Whack Stack to look for the "best example" of this, but it's almost tempting to go looking for it.

Some examples of whacks that went awry...

Should be googlewhacks, but for some reason, google won't accept them (for vulgarity?!?) [DEAD LINK]...

• onanistic fusillades [come on! this one is awesome!]
• orgasmic tesseracts

Gary Stock had this to say: Frankly, I ban the onan* clan (hehe...) because was a little _too_ popular with some early whackers. They were mostly about 14 years old, or at least acted that age, and the offensive nature of their comments was just too much to let continue.

Russ Perry Jr