Googlewhacking, Part 4

Michael O’Connor Clarke responds to the Gogglewhacking thread initiated by Gary No Blog Stock:

The Googlewhacking thread immediately brought back memories of a much earlier Internet Sport (BG: Before Google) called NetBullseye. The idea behind NetBullseye was simple – enter two search terms into Alta Vista and try to come up with exactly one search hit in the list. Googlewhacking seems to be essentially a fancier variation on the same theme.

The original NetBullseye site is still up, here along with some highly entertaining entries into the Hall of Fame.

Playing NetBullseye nowadays, with Google or even with Alta Vista (the engine of choice BG) is way harder than it used to be – but that just makes for a more interesting challenge. Most of the search combinations that worked in the old game no longer score a bullseye – and some of them were pretty tenuous anyway. The only Googleseyes I’ve managed to score so far are:

lambada opthalmoscopes
surinam creamcheese

I’m sure your readers can do better…

Now for the Grand Slam of Googlewhacking: Everlasting life and the crown of England shall be granted to the person who discovers a single page that supports two Googlewhacks. For example, if Michael’s two examples both pointed to the same page, we’d be calling him Deathless King Michael right about now. Does the grail exist? Probably not, although it seems likely that a page that supports a single Gogglewhack is more eccentric in its word usage than most other pages and thus runs a higher probability of supporting a second Googlewhack.

Note: You could publish and submit your own page with double googlewhacks just to become an immortal monarch, but it would be wrong.

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