Googlewhacking’s New Home

Actually, it’s always been The Home of the Googlewhack. Gary Stock invented Googlewhacking and while I’ve been proud to have helped promote it, it’s now time for me to bow out. Why? Because we don’t want any forking of the great shining way that is Googlewhacking. And because I’m getting bored. So, in the future, please submit your entries directly to Gary at www.googlewhack.com, or to where that address actually points: Unblinking.com.

One small exception: Gary isn’t tracking high scores. He’s much more interested in googlewhacking as a creative activity and has introduced what I think of as “semantic googlewhacking” which values the interesting juxtapositions of words. So, if you have a googlewhack that surpasses the current winner, let me know. Otherwise, talk to Gary.

Before claiming a high score, surpassing the 292,698,000,000 of RCassidy’s “linux checkerspot,” please keep the following rules in mind: Each word must be found in dictionary.com; no proper nouns; no hits on word lists; don’t search for the words as a precise phrase (i.e., don’t put quotes around the two words when you do the search). And remember the linux constant is 48,300,000.

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Now for some updates before closing the topic on this site.

Gavin Quick suggests “keratinous nimrod” (8,035,500,000) which he says is a “scientifically correct addition to John Travolta’s opinion of Amanda Plummer’s partner (what was his name?) in the restaurant near the end of Pulp Fiction.” (It was Tim Roth. That’s why the Lord has given us The Internet Movie Database.)

Jacob Schwirtz has found “laud boobytrap” (369,495,000), a googlewhack clearly on the side of the aggressor. (Oddly, google.com doesn’t recognize boobytrap as a legit word, although dictionary.com.)

Jeremy Brown likes “snarf dog.” So do I, but unfortunately, so do 2,110 pages. (Even “snarf dof” gets 38 hits.)

Andy C has found “pillows silages”, “wilderness slaggery”, “significance condimenting”, “trampy implosions”, “hobnobs stereos.” In his word: “Joyous.”

Dethe Elza, Chief Mad Scientist at Burning Tiger Technologies, writes:

OK, I resisted, but I’ve been drawn into the “googlewhack vortex” (42130000 Marks, but googlewhack is not recognized by dictionary.com). What are we to do when our whacks point only to word lists, like “inflammable bibliomancy” (a mere 122,016,000 Marks, alas). Do these count or not? And an “andelusian pox” (27324000 Marks) on Matthew Baldwin for making it way too easy to waste time on this. I can feel my productivity being cut into “blepharon sections” (1401700000 Marks).

Wordlists don’t count, and if googlewhacking isn’t in dictionary.com, it just doesn’t count. Nice recursive try, though.

As for Matthew Baldwin, he created an online googlewhacker that checks your word pairs and computes the score. All hail Baldwin.

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Gary Stock himself has used googlewhacking to report on Bush’s Stake of the Onion Address last night:

pseudonymous cockatiel:
Who was the primary author of the 2002 “State of the Union Address”?

necrophiliac cockatiel:
…obviously the same bird who wrote that address.

miasmic frenulum:
…obviously the technical term for that same bird’s hyoid disorder.

cockatiel colonoscopy:
…what Tom Daschle was picturing during the entire State of the Union Address.

macaw colonoscopy:
…I think you get the idea!

bibulous encomiums:
…it’s as if every whack refers to that entire speech!!

Remember, future googlewhacks go to Gary, the creator and keeper of the whackerflame. All hail Gary!

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