# With a knicknack Googlewhack...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 20, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674 "2004-08-20T05:01:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/41 "2004-08-22T02:00:29Z")
I have one: mandril & piggyback
I am proud because these words are not even that obscure.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/42 "2004-08-23T21:58:44Z")
> [@Cinnamon Girl](#):
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> Good word, **Jeff**!
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Taking a cue from **Rico** , I tried _googol whack_ but it didnât work. _Googol chimichanga_ howeverâŚ
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### Author:  [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/43 "2004-08-23T23:10:47Z")
Megapolis crookedly.
Finally!
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/44 "2004-08-24T01:50:59Z")
[cacophonious beatniks](http://www.google.com/search?q=cacophonious+beatniks)
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/45 "2004-08-24T01:56:17Z")
> [@JSexton](#):
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> Iâd just like to point out that Google doesnât index Googlewhack, so registering shouldnât invalidate your 'whack. Handy, no?
Yes, but posting them here does invalidate them. Once Google indexes this thread none of these will be whacks any more.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/46 "2004-08-24T02:14:25Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> Yes, but posting them here does invalidate them. Once Google indexes this thread none of these will be whacks any more.
Ahh but Google also doesnât index the SDMB.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Gutgore_Blooddrink)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/47 "2004-08-24T02:47:54Z")
Ha! I got me some Googlewhack!
Fear:
Stigmatic Provolone
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/48 "2004-08-24T02:57:33Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#):
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> Ahh but Google also doesnât index the SDMB.
[Not true.](http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=sdmb&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=boards.straightdope.com&safe=images)
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/49 "2004-08-24T03:07:38Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> [Not true.](http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=sdmb&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=boards.straightdope.com&safe=images)
That is pretty interesting. It looks like it is rating SDMB pages to their historical popularity or something.
However, a regular google search wonât turn that stuff up so it would still be a valid googlewack if the first to find it didnât register it.
Since you new how to do that search, can you tell us how to specify keywords within the search or something. The search engine for the board is a little fickle.
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/50 "2004-08-24T03:12:51Z")
[Corpulent nematicide](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=corpulent+nematicide)
Spent a lot of time with nematode, then switched to nematicide and got it on my first try.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/51 "2004-08-24T03:34:32Z")
You can type
\ site:boards.straightdope.com
into Google, and find out what it comes up with, but I have never had a successful search come up that way. The search as shown above simply tells it to search only the SDMB for search terms. As **Shagnasty** says, though, a straight Google search wonât show those results.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/52 "2004-08-24T04:04:48Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> That is pretty interesting. It looks like it is rating SDMB pages to their historical popularity or something.
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> However, a regular google search wonât turn that stuff up so it would still be a valid googlewack if the first to find it didnât register it.
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> Since you new how to do that search, can you tell us how to specify keywords within the search or something. The search engine for the board is a little fickle.
Iâm not sure exactly what youâre asking for, but I get those results from the following search string:
> [@](#):
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> âsdmbâ site:boards.straightdope.com
It tells it to search the specific domain â[boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com)â for the string âsdmbâ. That was kind of cheating but it makes the point that Google does in fact index this board. Oddly, if I do the same domain search for âCecilâ I only get 2 hits. The same domain searches for â1920â, â1920sâ, and â1920âsâ (as in â1920âs style raygunâ) turn up no results. Searching for âOpalâ also turns up no results. Strange⌠This discussion might be worth a [new thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5196315).
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/53 "2004-08-24T04:18:21Z")
Iâm fairly certain that SDMB has it set up to not allow searches, via a robots.txt file. Perhaps at one point this exclusion wasnât set up, or something slipped through the cracks in the very early phases of the board, and thatâs why thereâs search results. There is information on excluding a site from Google-crawlers here: [http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html#B3](http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html#B3)
A straight Google of âSDMBâ only turns up the main page, but nothing regarding the threads therein. Possibly only the threads are excluded from Google searching, but the main page would contain both Cecil (Ask Cecil Forum) and SDMB (for obvious reasons.)
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### Author:  [@jdc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdc)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-knicknack-googlewhack/260674/54 "2004-08-24T23:07:18Z")
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