Google Game: One hit searches (googlewhacked!)

[red_dragon60]

My mom was telling me about this recently. Basically, it's a party game where you try and come up with two words that would only produce one hit. One that I tried was "Rushmore Adonnis". The game is that since google is such a good engine, you have to think of weird stuff to stump it.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/01/31/ebrief.htm is a link to the phenomenon.

What can you come up with?

[Gozu Tashoya]

I'll assume the other thread got wiped by the hacking.

Scoring (IIRC): Multiply the number of results of the two words by themselves to get your score. For example, red dragon's rushmore adonnis would have scored 142,000 x 1,280 = 181,760,000.

Also, toss out a word for the next person to use as one of their search terms.

Next word: adhesive

[Seven]

I've never tried this but I have heard of it. So I gave it a shot.

3rd try - "liver buffering", one return.

Also "adhesive nutsack" returns one page.

[Seven]

Oh.. and my one word is "monkey"

[lawoot]

Monkey Adhesive - one hit!

CK Art Press Release
... and materials to make two six-inch versions of the classic sock monkey. Adhesive
felt lets kids design funky monkey outfits. For kids 10 and older, Velvet ...
www.curiositykits.com/catalog/press/ckarts.htm - 9k - Cached - Similar pages

hee-hee

your new word - 'rachet'

[zut]

When you're Googlewhacking, don't search with quotes. "monkey adhesive" returns one hit, but monkey adhesive return 4520. Example: relativity ballsack (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=relativity+ballsack) returns just one hit, with a score of 735,000 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=relativity) X 2630 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ballsack) = 1.93 billion.

rachet carpetbag (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rachet+carpetbag) returns one hit, with a score of 10800 X 3430 = 37 million. Not very good. Scores of 1 billion plus are fairly good, 10 billion plus are rare.

When we did this before, words used were required to be dictionary entries. Google itself will tell you, because, if it's an entry, in the text in the blue bar ("searched the Web for rachet carpetbag" in this case) the search words will be underlined links.

Next word: urethra

[Podkayne]

apportion urethra: 787X 128,000=100,736,000

Pretty sad, I fully admit, but I think I deserve bonus points for resisting the urge to read all the porn that popped up.

Next word: aromatic

[Bad News Baboon]

ok, this is kinda weak.

Aromatic bobbypin.

yes, I know that bobby pin is two words, but this was the only thing I could get to come up with one entry.

Do I get bonus points if NO entry comes out?

Aromatic Preymantis.


next word:

Dwarf

[Podkayne]

Originally posted by Bad News Baboon
[B]ok, this is kinda weak.

Aromatic bobbypin.

yes, I know that bobby pin is two words, but this was the only thing I could get to come up with one entry.


I think it should only counts if the word is in the dictionary. As zut says, you can find out whether your word is legit by looking at the blue bar near the top of the Google page, where it says, "Searched the web for bobbypin." If it's a word in the dictionary, it will be underlined, and you can click on it to get the definition from Dictionary.com. (http://www.dictionary.com)

If you don't have this rule, it's just to easy to do a weird misspelling that only appears once.
Another good rule from the Googlewhack website (http://www.unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm) is that if your one hit is one of those pages that just have long lists of words, for whatever nefairous purpose it doesn't count. I propose that we abide by the rules spelled out at the above website so we're all on the same page.

Though I really like the scoring system!

[emulsified]

Oooh good then I can have a go...


aromatic polyrhythm
(523,000 x 3,450 = 1,804,350,000)

my word is: platonic

[jk1245]

Dwarf isohedron (total score: 47,544,000).
Although isohedron doesn't come up as a dictionary word, it is. I swear!).
My score sucks because "isohedron" only gives 56 hits alone.
This is much tougher with common words like dwarf (I found multiple hits for "dwarf shotgunning" and "dwarf triskaidekaphobia"). Dwarf gives ~900,000 hits alone, so it may be your key to the elusive 10 billion.

Your next word is "caramel" (common words being hard and all)

[Podkayne]

plantoic corvet: 149,000 X 3480 = 518,520,000

Someday I hope to crack a billion . . .

I forbear to provide a new word, as caramel is an excellent choice.

Weird that Dictionary.com doesn't have isohedron!

[ChordedZither]

caramel mesopause

370,000 x 3,330 = 1,232,100,000


rhododendron

[emulsified]

I think on the Googlewhack site Podkayne referred to, they didn't allow sites where they had strange lists of keywords...


But anyway, that said:

rhododendron, furbelow
159,000 x 442 == a measly 78,278,000

My word: shoehorn

[ChordedZither]

Originally posted by emulsified

I think on the Googlewhack site [b]Podkayne referred to, they didn't allow sites where they had strange lists of keywords...


Ah. I stand corrected. (I so pleased to actually get it down to one hit, I didn't bother looking at the documents.)

[Podkayne]

Taking a cue from jk1245:

Rhododendron shotgunning: 159,000. X 6,940 = 1,103,460,000

Whee! Over a billion! But darn, emulsified beat me. But yay, my score is higher. . .

I really need to quit this and get some work done.

[CaveMike]

Finally! shoehorn + technophobe
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=shoehorn+technophobe

For a score of 17,900 x 7,060 = 126,374,000.

How about treacle?

[Fibonacci]

treacle fluorocarbon
for a score of 35,600 x 30,600 + 1,098,540,000
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=treacle+fluorocarbon&spell=1

[Giraffe]

Well, "giraffe ballsack" gave two hits. Close, but no ballsack...

Ah, here we are: "relativistic fluffer". Score = 212,000 x 19,800 = 4.2 billion.

[Fibonacci]

Oh... let's try
crabapple

[Giraffe]

Damn, I don't think "fluffer" counts as a word.

Well, back to the drawing ballsack.

[Giraffe]

OK, replace my earlier entry with "relativistic spatulas".

Score: 212,000 x 30,200 = 6.4 billion

(I'm clearly ignoring the suggested words, as I'm having a hard enough time without constraints.)

[thingnumberone]

FINALLY....

crabapple polyp

40900 * 62900 = 2,572,610,000

:)

[thingnumberone]

let's try...

uproar

[zut]

I got:

uproar spaghettis (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=uproar+spaghettis) for a score of 225000 X 13300 = 2.99 billion.

Next word: freaky

[ChordedZither]

freaky morphometric

664000 x 25100 = 16,666,400,000 :cool:

next word: kinetic

[CaveMike]

First zut beats me while I am previewing. Then ChordedZither does the same.

And all the time I still can't beat a billion, let alone 16.6 billion - great job Zither...

[ChordedZither]

Originally posted by CaveMike
First zut beats me while I am previewing. Then ChordedZither does the same.

And all the time I still can't beat a billion, let alone 16.6 billion - great job Zither...

Aw, shoot CaveMike. Post yours anyway. It's a friendly game.

[CaveMike]

kinetic + zithern
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kinetic+zithern&btnG=Google+Search

683,000 x 1,240 = 846,920,000

Let's try compulsive.

[red_dragon60]

Karsts Semantics

4,460,800,000

Next word: benzoic

[CaveMike]

benzoic+theocracy (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=benzoic+theocracy)

39,000 x 52,700 = 2,055,300,000. Finally above a billion!

Next word: didactic (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=didactic)

[emulsified]

So that CaveMike might have some satisfaction, he should know that he just beat ME on preview! Agh!

(I got benzoic + turnabout == 1,844,700,000 Beat on points, too!)

[Bryan Ekers]

didactic+hyperspheres (http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Scie/ScieStar.htm), for a score of 219,000 x 1,560 = 341,640,000

Next word: superluminous

[red_dragon60]

diadactic zootropic

2,190,000 so it's crappy. Continue!

Next: Daffodil

[red_dragon60]

superluminous tulip!

1,034,740,000

[lel]

daffodil pontifically (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=daffodil+pontifically&btnG=Google+Search)

daffodil = 117,000

pontifically = 632

Total = 73,944,000

Next word = polytheism

[Bryan Ekers]

polytheism+whortleberry (http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/gutenberg/etext03/mrcpd10.txt), for a score of 33,300 x 2500 = 83,250,000

Hmmm, still no billlion.

Try: frankincense

[iampunha]

frankincense and cryptographically (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=frankincense+cryptographically).

84300*36000=3,034,800,000. Three billion. Not shabby.

Next word: polyovarian.

[iampunha]

Scratch that. Polyovarian returns one hit on google anyway.

Next word: syllabic.

[Bryan Ekers]

hmph, trick question. "polyovarian" only appears on one website, so the best strategy would be to pick the most common word on that side.

the + polyovarian gives me a quick 2.48 billion

try: bacchanal

[Kantalooppi]

bacchanal stratospheres

15400*947=14,583,800

Next word: dingleberry

[gex gex]

dingleberry piscean (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&q=dingleberry+piscean)

8490 x 9170 = 77 853 300

not great.


next word:

echolalia

[CaveMike]

echolalia + amnionic (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=echolalia+amnionic)

6,420 x 1,060 = 6,805,200
Is that the lowest score yet?

Next: crusty (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=crusty)

[Kantalooppi]

Dammit! I spent all this time searching for echolalia, I'm not going to let it slip!

echolalia croons

6,420 x 20700 = 132,894,000

...well, it's better than my first attempt...

[red_dragon60]

crusty azeotrope

596,250,000

next: transdermal

[Podkayne]

crusty symbal : 159,000 X 1240 = 197,160,000

Skirting the edge of illegality . . . though "symbal" appears in the dictionary, the author of the webpage is clearly just misspelling "cymbal."

More legit but lower-scoring:

crusty oculatory : 159,000 X 797. = 126,723,000

Next word: kissing. [That's what 'osculation' means.]

[Podkayne]

On my FIRST TRY!!!

transdermal windbag : 56,900 X 11,700=665,730,000

Next word:
kissing

[Podkayne]

Looks like syllabic got lost in the shuffle.

syllabic peregines: 9,120. X 26,100 = 238,032,000

This is a little too addictive.

[CaveMike]

Addictive is right. I am still stuck on kissing.

I've found a few 2-hitters and taken a tour of the seedy underbelly of the internet. I am amazed that kissing+plutocratic only turns up porn sites...

[red_dragon60]

kissing+hyperfusion

891,800,000

Next: yeast

[CaveMike]

yeast + plutocratic (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yeast+plutocratic)

1,110,000 x 4,120 = 4,573,200,000.

Next: debit (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=debit)

[red_dragon60]

debit + methaqualones

28,941,000

debit + extraplanetary

758,605,000

next: administrator

[CaveMike]

Really good one red_dragon.

administrator + diaphaneity (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=administrator+diaphaneity) returns two matches, but the first is a giant list of words (which I think is disqualified?).

8,810,000 x 790 = 6,959,900,000.

Next: timeout (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=timeout)

A little more practice and I think we will be ready for state. ;)

[chula]

"Administrator" was way too hard for my first try. My second attempt got me:

timeout + oenophile = 1,430,000 x 2,180 = 3,117,400,000

next: satan

[red_dragon60]

I did it!

administrator + verbicide

3,620,910,000

[Jello]

Administrator + gerundial = 5,443,340,000

[GilaB]

After spending entirely too long on this, I came up with satan + recombinants (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recombinants+satan)
1,780,000 x 12,700 = 22,606,000,000

My first try, no less! OK, it returns two hits on google, but they're exactly the same page, so I think this counts.

In the theme of the paper I'm supposed to be researching, the next word is virus.

And if anyone can give me good references on herpesvirus trafficking, that would be good too :D.

[5 time champ]

virus * knuckleballing
7,900,000 * 137 = 1,082,300,000

How about secondary?

[5 time champ]

virus * knuckleballing
7,900,000 * 137 = 1,082,300,000

How about secondary?

[GilaB]

Secondary + Spikiest (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=+secondary+spikiest)
Secondary 3,770,000
Spikiest 195
Total 735,150,000

Kind of pathetic. I guess I was lucky last time, although I think my 22.6 billion is the best so far overall.
Next word: run
It's got nearly six million hits on its own, so we should be able to do something good with it.

[jackelope]

I don't quite get this "next word is" thing, but my googlewhack is good just because the two words are so wonderful individually:

cassiopeia gewurztraminer

Dig it.

[Kantalooppi]

Originally posted by GilaB
Secondary + Spikiest (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=+secondary+spikiest)
Secondary 3,770,000
Spikiest 195
Total 735,150,000

Kind of pathetic. I guess I was lucky last time, although I think my 22.6 billion is the best so far overall.
Next word: run
It's got nearly six million hits on its own, so we should be able to do something good with it.

Actually, I suspect this makes it harder, considering that run is so common that any word that would googlewhack with it would have to be pretty damn archaic by itself. Only one I could find was "run trinitarianist" and that had measly 24,000,000.

[China Guy]

Not quite sure how you calculate scores, but run praseodymium (rare earth element) had 453 total hits.

Can I pick the next word?

Mahayana

[Podkayne]

Let's to reinterate the rules for newcomers (and spell them out completely for once.)

A googlewhack a search for two words without quotation marks at http://www.google.com, that results in only one hit. The rules are:

1) Google must say "Results: 1-1 of (any number)."

2) Both words must be in the dictionary, namely at dictionary.com. On Google's page of search results look at the the blue bar where it says "Searched the web for bumptious overhanging." If the words were found at dictionary.com, they will be underlined and you can click on them to get the definition. If either word is not underlined, it's not a googlewhack. (This is sometimes quite arbitrary, with really weird words popping up at dictionary.com, and perfectly reasonable words mysteriously missing, but just like Scrabble, the only fair way to play is to pick one dictionary and agree on it, and dictionary.com is most convenient.)

3) If the page is nothing but a list of words (example (http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/ap/bogwords)) then it's not a googlewhack. (If you get two hits and one of them is a list of words, you still don't have a googlewhack. See rule #1. Sorry!)

To find the score for your googlewhack, search for each word individually and take the number of hits ("Results 1-10 of about (number of hits") for each word and multiply them together. The idea is that anybody can score a googlewhack using obscure words, but the true artistry lies in coming up with an improbable combination of common words. A score of a billion is pretty good, 10 billion is excellent!

If you score a googlewhack, offer a "next word," challenging the Teeming Millions to use this word in their next googlewhack.

[Pjen]

Yeast + Pyramidally

472,860,000

Next Word:

Hypnopompic

[ChordedZither]

hypnopompic ethernet

1,350 x 3,640,000 = 4,914,000,000


Try: cinnamon

[Podkayne]

cinnamon dipthong: 833,000 X 2360 = 1,965,880,000

Next word: warmonger

[MarkyDeSade]

Warmonger omnidirectional
11,400 x 39,400 = 449,160,000

Next word:
untroubled

[Podkayne]

untroubled expectorate: 32,500 X 4,230 = 137,475,000

Next: obvious

[ChordedZither]

obvious tyrannicalness
5,310,000 x 143 = 759,330,000

(That was hard - "obvious" comes up in an awful lot of different contexts!)

Next: monarchy

[Podkayne]

monarchy stegosaur: 353,000. X 3,120. = 1,101,360,000

Next word: angelfish

[CaveMike]

angelfish + prioritizes (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=angelfish+prioritizes)

50,600 x 36,300 = 1,836,780,000

Next: pies (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pies)

[5 time champ]

constitutionalize * pies (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pies++constitutionalize&btnG=Google+Search)

1,650 * 962,000 = 1,587,300,000

How about bush ?

[5 time champ]

Originally posted by GilaB
Secondary + Spikiest (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=+secondary+spikiest)
Secondary 3,770,000
Spikiest 195
Total 735,150,000



secondary (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=secondary)

This search get 7,650,000 hits for secondary, maybe you need to get an updated version of Google:D

[emulsified]

Man oh man... That one was effin hard. It seemed like whatever weird, obscure word I tried, I'd get a link to a William F. Buckley article. It made me laugh.

Am I the only one who wants to kill people who put strange long lists of random words on their pages?

Anyway...

bush and turacou
8,210,000 x 43 = 353,030,000

I'm sure someone could do better, but I give up.

Next word: eulogy

[CaveMike]

Tough one emulsified. There were some really weird combinations. Also sadly, I found out that Chet Atkins died last year.

eulogy + lobstering (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=eulogy+lobstering)

131,000 x 6,080 = 796,480,000

Next: pirate (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pirate)

[emulsified]

pirate distrustfulness
981,000 x 508 = 498,348,000

No billion... :(

Next word: keyboard

(I hope that's not too hard...)

[5 time champ]

keyboard * governmentalize (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=keyboard+++governmentalize&btnG=Google+Search)

1,310,000 * 185 = 242,350,000

How about bid ? I found at least one pair that yields over 500,000,000.

[guysmiley]

bid + pneumatical

7,220,000 * 1,280 = 9,241,600,000

Next try: revel

[CaveMike]

revel + flagellums (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=revel+flagellums)

And it leads to an interesting page...

236,000 x 86 = 20,296,000

Next: politico (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=politico)

[5 time champ]

rhomboids * politico (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=politico+rhomboids&btnG=Google+Search)

3,230 * 614,000 = 1,983,220,000

How about jeopardy?

[BrattiAtti]

jeopardy + prankishness

588,000 x 565 = 332,220,000

measly score but I finally got one!

next word: duck

[Regina]

Hyperirritable Duck (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=duck+hyperirritable)

471 x 2,290,000 = 1,078,590,000

I really need to get a life.

Next: exquisite

[ThesaurusRex]

“Creative Typartgraphy”

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=creative+typartgraphy

[ThesaurusRex]

I didn't read the clarified page two rules before posting...

Kindly ignore my blunder. :)

[ThesaurusRex]

I didn't read the clarified page two rules before posting...

Kindly ignore my blunder. :)

[GilaB]

Exquisite + Phytoplanktons (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=exquisite+phytoplanktons)
786,000 x 1390 = 1,092,540,000

Next word: Water?