# Google Game: One hit searches (googlewhacked!) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 29, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711 "2002-03-29T05:54:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/61 "2002-04-01T10:16:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/62 "2002-04-01T13:37:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/63 "2002-04-01T14:58:24Z")
Not quite sure how you calculate scores, but run praseodymium (rare earth element) had 453 total hits. Can I pick the next word? Mahayana ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/64 "2002-04-01T15:45:29Z")
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](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](http://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](http://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](http://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](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/65 "2002-04-01T16:14:50Z")
Yeast + Pyramidally 472,860,000 Next Word: Hypnopompic ---
**Author:** ![ChordedZither](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@ChordedZither](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChordedZither)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/66 "2002-04-01T17:18:35Z")
hypnopompic ethernet 1,350 x 3,640,000 = 4,914,000,000 Try: cinnamon ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/67 "2002-04-01T18:50:33Z")
cinnamon dipthong: 833,000 X 2360 = 1,965,880,000 Next word: warmonger ---
**Author:** ![MarkyDeSade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@MarkyDeSade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkyDeSade)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/68 "2002-04-01T19:04:53Z")
Warmonger omnidirectional 11,400 x 39,400 = 449,160,000 Next word: untroubled ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/69 "2002-04-01T19:13:07Z")
untroubled expectorate: 32,500 X 4,230 = 137,475,000 Next: obvious ---
**Author:** ![ChordedZither](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@ChordedZither](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChordedZither)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/70 "2002-04-01T21:01:45Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/71 "2002-04-01T21:56:08Z")
monarchy stegosaur: 353,000. X 3,120. = 1,101,360,000 Next word: angelfish ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/72 "2002-04-02T00:11:57Z")
[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) ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/73 "2002-04-02T03:26:42Z")
[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**? ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/74 "2002-04-02T03:34:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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 ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/75 "2002-04-02T16:02:27Z")
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** ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/76 "2002-04-02T19:51:33Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/77 "2002-04-02T20:58:58Z")
pirate distrustfulness 981,000 x 508 = 498,348,000 No billion… ☹ Next word: **keyboard** (I hope that’s not too hard…) ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/78 "2002-04-03T01:32:03Z")
[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. ---
**Author:** ![guysmiley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@guysmiley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guysmiley)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/79 "2002-04-04T21:32:27Z")
bid + pneumatical 7,220,000 \* 1,280 = 9,241,600,000 Next try: revel ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711/80 "2002-04-05T15:15:43Z")
[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) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-game-one-hit-searches-googlewhacked/100711.md?page=5)