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Monday, July 05, 2004

zany genuflectors and moongazing maggots
The next time you are sitting in front of a comp, try this little exercise. Type two individual words, with no quotes into the Google search bar and hit enter or 'i'm feeling lucky', if your search result ends in a single find you have successfully stumbled upon a 'googlewhack'.
Google spews out 16,300 results if you type 'googlewhack'; there is this site dedicated to 'googlewhacking called www.googlewhack.com, where the search for the single result has been elevated to an art form. Some of the googlewhacks include ambidextrous scallywags,fetishized armadillo,assonant octosyllable and antiestablishmentarianism psycho. Dave Norman even has a bestseller called, 'Dave Norman's googlewhack adventure. Norman incidentally did not set out to write the book, he stumbled upon it just as he discovered the world of 'googlewhacking'. After getting an advance Norman promptly starts no work on the book but instead checks mail,paints and does crosswords during which he finds out that his self named website is a googlewhack. He sets out on a pointless oddssey spread over 4 continents, to find before his thirty second birthday a string of ten individuals whose names are 'googlewhacks'. The book is supposedly stomach hurting, rib breaking funny and the pace jet speed scorching.
I got two sets of words which yielded one result, moongazing maggots and zany genuflectors, but they did not meet with one of the 'googlewhack' requirements which neccessitates that the words exist in www.dictionary.com.
Let me know if you get lucky, happy googlewhacking.

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