
Speak nonsense...
Published: 31 January 2002 15:40 GMT
A new craze is sweeping the world - or possibly only the silicon.com office - which is seeing people trying to stump the searching powers of Google by finding instances where searches yield one solitary result.
The rules of Googlewhacking' are simple. Type two words into the search field on Google and hit 'Google Search'. If the search returns with 'Results 1 - 1 of 1' then you win. If it finds more than one site on which those two words appear, you don't.
To further complicate matters, you can't use inverted commas to limit your search, as the words can appear anywhere on the site. It's not as easy as it sounds.
The game was the brainchild of Gary Stock (which interestingly returns 607,000 results) - who merely took people's habit of searching for odd combinations of words and christened it Googlewhacking.
silicon.com staff managed to find a few instances - 'Stromatolite Blackpool' and surprisingly 'Ranarium Toad', to name but two.
Sadly, by publishing these combinations of words on our own site we negate their Googlewhacker status - so we need you to help out and find more. If you find any more Googlewhackers register them below as a reader comment. All words must appear on www.dictionary.com in order for your Googlewhacker to be valid.
Go on - it's more fun than you'd think.
*IMPORTANT:* PLEASE READ: We're enjoying all your Googlewhacking suggestions but we are fast running out of space on this original story to post them all. Please keep registering your reader comments here: http://www.silicon.com/a50978 .
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