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?
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
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.
Oh… and my one word is “monkey”
Monkey Adhesive - one hit!
hee-hee
your new word - ‘rachet’
When you’re Googlewhacking, don’t search with quotes. “monkey adhesive” returns one hit, but monkey adhesive return 4520. Example: relativity ballsack returns just one hit, with a score of 735,000 X 2630 = 1.93 billion.
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
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
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
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.
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 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!
Oooh good then I can have a go…
aromatic polyrhythm
(523,000 x 3,450 = 1,804,350,000)
my word is: platonic
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)
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!
caramel mesopause
370,000 x 3,330 = 1,232,100,000
rhododendron
[nitpick]
I think on the Googlewhack site Podkayne referred to, they didn’t allow sites where they had strange lists of keywords…
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But anyway, that said:
rhododendron, furbelow
159,000 x 442 == a measly 78,278,000
My word: shoehorn
Ah. I stand corrected. (I so pleased to actually get it down to one hit, I didn’t bother looking at the documents.)
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.
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?
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
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.
Oh… let’s try
crabapple