Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Are you a whacker?

No, not that!

I'm referring to GoogleWhacking, a game wherein the contestant (you) sends two-word search requests to Google to get back a single result. With over 8 billion pages served, it's tough to find the perfect combination.

However, I did it with cryonic gerrymandering. And it only took 45 minutes of trying random words that I didn't think fit together.

If you hurry, you can still see my "whack" in the "WhackStack" at www.googlewhack.com

What I found interesting about this is that there are pages out there that I was sure would come up either without hits or maybe one, but I'd get 10, 50 or a hundred. It was amazing.

Wanna play? There are rules for this, but it's pretty easy. Go to Google.com, type in two words that can both be found at Dictionary.com, get back a single hit and you can record your hit in the WhackStack.

Fun and an insidious time stealer.

Enjoy!

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