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So most of you will know the drill:

Enter only two words in Google without quotation marks that leads to a search result of only one answer. The rule is it has to be proper words, not names or places and the search result can't be an online dictionary or a word list, it has to be a proper website.

List your results and the page it links to here!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

barrister susurrus

http://libr.unl.edu:2000/birds_of_nebraska/DJ.00357.html (a website about the birds of Nebraska

That took me about 5 minutes! I thought this was meant to be difficult.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm finding it terribly hard. my skills need polishing. especially since my first try was "dog latin".

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 August 2005 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

oscillates felching

― naus (Robert T), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

lantern-jaw floccinaucinihilipilification

wooohoo! found a boring site, took me one ad break and a little bit of sex in the city (bleugh) to come up with a successful pair

http://puzzlers.org/wordlists/files/ukacdasc.txt

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

and the search result can't be an online dictionary or a word list, it has to be a proper website.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry Menelaus

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry. i'm just bitter.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

crunk dolorousness

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=dolorousness+crunk&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&fl=0&x=wrt

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

pneumonia blastcore

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=pneumonia+blastcore&meta=

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mooer colonic

http://heptapod.org/sepoct99.html

It starts: "I gamed. I wrote. I masturbated. I slept. I'm still unemployed. Hopefully I'll get work soon.

Oh yeah, there was a Farscape marathon (only 8 eps) on SciFi last night. I watched that instead of playing StarCraft which I've started playing again with the intent of finishing it."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 4 August 2005 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate this. i give up. if "rectal supernova" gets 900 hits, i'm never gonna score.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

goofproof turbocharger

TheForumBar.com -> Need info on diesels... GoofProof, Posted: Dec 20 2004, 12:17 AM. Quote Post. ... If you can find something in the 2.5-3.5L range with a turbocharger, you should be good to go. ...
www.theforumbar.com/forums/ index.php?s=e0638e010334a5bf92862e7b36b66811&showtopic=1237 - 68k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

weird goofproof woman has 655 sites, huh?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 4 August 2005 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I put in electric spondee and the first hit was a site about Drew Daniel

― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still trying. best so far is hypnophobic encapsulation with 5 hits. waaaaah.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 August 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

whoo:
nabob nightlamp

yeilds only one file (a pdf):
http://www.y2kcafe.cc/books/countmc2.pdf

alliterative googlewhack!

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

areolas applebutter
also gives only one pdf (+ some wordlists)
http://www.princeton.edu/~nasslit/spring04.pdf

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd heard about these and assumed they were difficult, but I found the following two in about three minutes:

heartsmart fluxus
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=heartsmart+fluxus&btnG=Search

slatternly taqueria
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=slatternly+taqueria&spell=1

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

appendendectomy gastroenterology
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/?id=CROHNS.AGA

medical terms make it easy!

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Especially when you spell one of them wrong.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

MISERABLE KITTEN.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, fuck.

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

another one, out of shame:
menippian parisian
http://www.ctstateu.edu/univrel/ctreview/spring96/martdich.html

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(Slatternly Taqueria doesn't really work -- just a site with junky random links. Okay, fine, not as easy as I thought!)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a Googlewhack, but this is impressive.

(for future reference, when results might be different: google: fap drunkenness -> top result)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

puzzlers.org has made this harder but I got there with "GLOOPY POPIST".

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 4 August 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Journalistic chinesing.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 4 August 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

phlegmatic trapshoot

http://paulashouseoftoast.blogspot.com/archives/2004_03_01_paulashouseoftoast_archive.html

A very beautiful and interesting photoblog!

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha - I haven't done this for ages but I got one first time:

fuckish outrage

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=subcutaneously+farfalle

So close, but I'm not clicking on the non-dictionary entry at work.

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The guy that invented Googlewhacking is an alum of my college. There was even a sidebar about him in our alumni magazine a year or two ago! Sad, really...

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

khazak paradiddle

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I got one with "oodles swamplight" but it seems to be an online version of the full text of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, which somehow doesn't seem fair. (Although check out all the text files in the same directory -- it's a fucking library!)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

steatopygous boozehound

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, so do these count as wordlists (i.e. can we ignore them as such)?:


girls gone wild camping - Pictures never seen before
... camping gate-crashing girls gone wild camping Pius II with discouraging endoplasm. ...
Fogged myxomatosis figure skate the agraphic girls gone wild camping razor ...
www[editing so it's not accidentally clickable]ari-panama[weee]com/girls-gone-wild/ girls-gone-wild-camping/girls-gone-wild-camping.html - 54k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

milquetoast cohomology

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

trilobite asshattery

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

panties incorruptability

panties incorruptability

unfortunately it's because I spelled "incorruptibility" wrong.

― already disheveled hair projection (wetmink), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

cartoon prelapsarians

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

propinquitous Melanesian

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

merkin chiaroschuro

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

suprapubic smartypants

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

asymptotic ill-na-na

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

matriciana hashana
http://jewish-books.net/1881527972.html

First time! Hura.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

post-punk hornswaggler

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

RZA coreopsis

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

heterosexual post-post-punk

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

hey dog latin, barrister susurrus isn't a googlewhack.
Results 1 - 10 of about 92 for barrister susurrus

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

francophobic dunce

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

crunky geir

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Thursday, 4 August 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

jodhpurs pwnage

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Thursday, 4 August 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

mule-thumbed chickenheads

― 3, Thursday, 4 August 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

sedulous trustafarians

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Thursday, 4 August 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

saltines grizz-ills

― 3, Thursday, 4 August 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

borgesian hoodwink
poobah oubliettes
sonned whitekid

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 4 August 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Your search - dickheaded culottes - did not match any documents."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 4 August 2005 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I gave up after even chitinous supermodel gave up 47 results.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 4 August 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

bompstomp mathematics

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

raggett ragout

(yeah, I know, no names)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 5 August 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

damn, Cisterns Bartelby got me down to three hits. That's my best so far.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, got one:

marionberry fantastique

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Niggardly Chingon

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

kirschtorte gravatar (the page is in German, no less)

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, forgot to include pages:

1. Marionberry Fantastique:
http://www.eraclick.com/193798/Lenox%20Holiday%20Punch%20Bowl%20W%20Ladle.html
Appears to be a shopping site.

2. Niggardly Chingon: http://forums.interestingnonetheless.com/display.php?tid=16142
It's a forum post that has a list of unused band names, so this one almost feels like cheating.

3. Kirschtorte Gravatar:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//weblog.akascha.com/index.php%3Fcat%3D1&ei=u_ryQq7EF5q2YIyXnNEP
???
3.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Your search - bootylicious japonaiserie - did not match any documents.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 5 August 2005 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Real words, dudes!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 5 August 2005 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

bockwurst tumuli

Not easy!

I remember the days when "Greenlandic stethoscopy" and "starlight metatarsals" were googlewhacks.... not any more :(

― JTS, Friday, 5 August 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

randy vermiculturist

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

stroppy anti-trinitarians

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

degaussian teeth

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

trollopy boogaloo

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

unasphyxiated cuisine

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

unprepossessing pinochle

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It'd be kind of awesome if you could set it up so the one page that came up was your post on this thread.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

ultraphotogenic trenchant

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurting, you touch a sore spot. Once upon a time the Ask-A-Drunkites set out to capture a menagerie of googlewhacks-to-be. IOW, word combinations that came up on Google as "no pages were found that matched your search criteria". These we posted on the old Greenspun forum by setting the words within paragraphs of rather fanciful prose. Then we sat down and waited for the googlewhackers to arrive.

Whosis, the googlewhack inventor, officially disqualified that page by reclassifying it as a "word list", claiming, for example, that a menu listing for "Carmelized Owlet Pinfeathers served on a bed of Farinaceous Glop" was utter nonsense and could not be understood as anything but a string of meaningless words. He also complained that this page had produced two dozen googlewhacks in less than a minute, as if that were a problem for him.

The man was a Philistine, apparently. No appreciation of art.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

tapiocalike pinhead

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

On a side note, the wordlist sites have just about crushed googlewhacking out of existance. Most contemporary whacks require the use of weird compund words, or a word stacked with allowable prefixes (un-, pre-, ante-) or suffixes (-some, -like, -ness) to create a legal, but rare, variant that the word listers forgot to include.

It's kind of like my brother playing the word "unrewaxed" in Scrabble once. We had to give it to him, the prat.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

elicitational hybrid

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

crazed kegglers

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

infill bulbousness

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

fantabulist rondelay

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

japanned semiquavering gives two results, both identical. Even two sneezes are more unlike than these two pages are.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

unparsable ramjet (result)

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 6 August 2005 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

unscruffy donations

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

peachily copacetic

― already disheveled hair projection (wetmink), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

beautiful louisianan

"beautiful mississippian" returns two.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, but john used quote marks around the search term. Still, amusing.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ack, i gotta read the rules.

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

closeted Rangoonian

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 6 August 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...
hey, you guys relise that once you enter your google whack into this database it ceases to be a googlewhack?

couldnt you out a number or something in between? because your all creating the undoing of your work

― carmel wallis (carmel), Friday, 23 June 2006 06:39 (twenty years ago)

coll88oquials ed88ibles

at the risk of seeming like a hypocrite
i put the number 8 inbetween so its still a whack
lol

― carmel wallis (carmel), Friday, 23 June 2006 06:56 (twenty years ago)

i guess, carmel that that's our way of staking our claim on the googlewhack really - saves other people thinking they're so special and also makes the game harder as you go along.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:09 (twenty years ago)

This is a lot harder than it used to be. According to an old list of these I kept, ECUMENICALLY MASOCHISTIC was a valid googlewhack in 2002. Now: 859 hits.

Even QUERULOUS ZAMBONI gets 110 nowadays. And CHIMICHANGA DUCHY gets 86. And KWAKIUTL NECROPSIES gets 27.

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 132 for barrister susurrus. (0.36 seconds)

wtf?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:11 (twenty years ago)

colloquials edibles = 71 hits!

I came up with POSTSERIALIST MOM.

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:12 (twenty years ago)

carmel wallis, you need to understand that any and every googlewhack is a mayfly, the creature of a day, an ephemeris that dies upon the morrow. The world and the web move on and so should you.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

googlewhacking was fun while it lasted, but I am certain it has now reached the stage of quasi-impossibility.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:35 (nine years ago)

Might be revived if one excludes computer security word lists.

― this device is capable of killing you without warning (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 02:59 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

AIUniWksNET - of course by posting this it will probably no more be one

― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:05 (eight years ago)

that was quick google!

― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Monday, 27 August 2018 15:02 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

lodestar ratsedo(l)

parenthesis added to preserve the whack

― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 18:09 (eight years ago)


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