Google Game: One hit searches (googlewhacked!)

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.

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.

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

Can I pick the next word?

Mahayana

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) 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.

Yeast + Pyramidally

472,860,000

Next Word:

Hypnopompic

hypnopompic ethernet

1,350 x 3,640,000 = 4,914,000,000
Try: cinnamon

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

Next word: warmonger

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

Next word:
untroubled

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

Next: obvious

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

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

Next word: angelfish

angelfish + prioritizes

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

Next: pies

constitutionalize * pies

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

How about bush ?

secondary

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

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

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

eulogy + lobstering

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

Next: pirate

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

No billion… :frowning:

Next word: keyboard

(I hope that’s not too hard…)

keyboard * governmentalize

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

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

bid + pneumatical

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

Next try: revel

revel + flagellums

And it leads to an interesting page…

236,000 x 86 = 20,296,000

Next: politico