From NPR this morning:
Apparently there is a new online game or sport, if you will, called “Google Whacking”.
The object of the game:
Enter two common English words into Google’s search engine and return exactly one result.
The rules:
1. The words must be common enough and spelled correctly so that they appear in the blue bar above the search results as underlined links – words not linked thusly are either misspelled or uncommon.
2. The words must return exactly one search result (also listed in blue bar as “Results 1 – 1 of 1”).
Here’s an example of a Google Whack of my own creation (open Google and search for these exact terms to confirm results):
antinomian saddling
([URL]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=antinomian+saddling&btnG=Google+Search[/URL])
Which should return the following, single link:
[URL]http://home.att.net/~sandgryan/essays_on_objectivism/ocr/chapter13.html[/URL]
You know what? This is a great way to generate some random websurfing links. Who knows what wacky stuff you’ll turn up?