Google Whacking

Nov 29, 2005 09:40

As is my wont, I was surfing around my friends' blogs/sites, and I found a bit on Google Whacking. It's like Google Bombing, but different. In this one, you search for two words -- no quotes, cheaters! -- and try and get but a single hit in the 8 billion pages indexed by Google ( Read more... )

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lockholm November 29 2005, 22:55:46 UTC
This is fun. I've not found a lot, but:
merovingian snacker (16) is by far the best.
runners up:
pectoriloquy slalom: 41
fovea tessellation: 134
pheochromocytoma vulpine: 135
archaeopteryx insole: 150

I got one via a typo, but I don't think that counts.
argin pectoriloquy

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lockholm November 29 2005, 22:58:44 UTC
Also, it would be fun if there were a trivial way to determine how many of the hits you come up with are not from word lists. trying to outsmart word lists is like a competition to see who knows more big obscure words (sounds like something you'd like) but without those lists, it's looking at how different ideas have been combined by all those crazy people on the internet - very amusing.

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math_avenger December 1 2005, 01:52:35 UTC
Nice one with "Mergovingian snacker" -- it's a great idea to combine the obscure with the more mundane to try to filter out the word lists. I quite like that idea. While engaging in a pissing match with internet word lists can be an ego stroke, it's more fun and interesting to try and couple disparate subjects ( ... )

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math_avenger December 1 2005, 02:10:42 UTC
I get a lot of spam sites, too. A search for the ever-elusive brobdignagian psychopharmacology yields a surprising wealth of hits concerning pornography. We may need to refine to filter to exclude both word list and spam sites. Methods to do this would be most welcome.

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math_avenger December 1 2005, 03:09:31 UTC
Okay, I've discovered a couple things ( ... )

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