Posted by
cal, 08:43, 29th January 2002:
"Google Whack" is my new favourite game. It's pretty easy to understand, but hard to do well:
1 choose two words in the english language
2 type them in to google (together)
3 if you get more than one match, go back to step one
4 search for each word individually, and note the number of hits
5 multiply the two numbers to get your score (low is better)
my best is "disembowel gorgonzola"
disembowel has 8160 matches and gorgonzola has 77,500, so my score is 8160 x 77,500 = 632,400,000
can you get lower? remember, when put into google together, they must match once (and only once).
Posted by
cal, 08:57, 29th January 2002:
i win i win i win
Disembogue Disambiguates (270 x 2,550) = 688,500
Posted by
cal, 10:20, 29th January 2002:
rob at b3ta reports that perhaps higher scores are better. hmm
Posted by
Sul, 11:54, 29th January 2002:
that would make more sense to be honest Cal
Posted by
Sul, 12:10, 29th January 2002:
monosyllabic paddleboat (26,100 x 9,490) = 247,689,000
I struggle just to get 1 match at first
Posted by
cal, 13:41, 29th January 2002:
it's harder (i think) to score low
Posted by
zxenor, 14:42, 29th January 2002:
rarified brainpan (17,800 x 6740) = 119,972,000
Posted by
zxenor, 14:52, 29th January 2002:
ooh ooh...drugged uberheim (403,000 x 529) = 213,187,000
hemiola vegan (1,500 x 400,000) = 600,000,000
abhored wobbles? (with 3 hits! darn...)
avuncular metaplasm (10,900 x 225) = 2,452,500
Posted by
cal, 15:36, 29th January 2002:
it's MUCH harder than it seems, isn't it :)
Posted by
Sul, 18:36, 29th January 2002:
triquarter plant (95 x 12,800,000) = 1,190,400,000
Posted by
zxenor, 18:52, 29th January 2002:
hypothalamus ocelots (115,000 * 6,870) = 790,050,000
Posted by
zxenor, 19:07, 29th January 2002:
ebk oophagous (39,800 x 143) = 5,691,400
Posted by
MrTin, 23:43, 29th January 2002:
mwa
altithermal acrobatholithic (597 * 262) = 156,414
asthenolith argilliferous (75 * 161) = 12,075
Aquod autogeosyncline (52 * 24) = 1,248
Posted by
cal, 08:34, 30th January 2002:
VERY good low ones Mr Tin. And zxenor, have you come from b3ta.com by any chance?
Posted by
mikhail, 09:01, 30th January 2002:
I thought the idea was to score high. The original idea was to try to find two 'common' words that would return only one hit. The scoring came in to calculate how common your words were. A word with more hits is more common, and will give a higher overall score. It's fairly easy to find two obscure words and score low isn't it?
Am I wrong?
Posted by
cal, 09:32, 30th January 2002:
but it think it's pretty hard to find two very obscure words AND find them both on the SAME page
Posted by
zxenor, 14:27, 30th January 2002:
both are equally pretty hard to accomplish...and no cal, i didn't come here from b3ta, but i do know of it...
Posted by
zxenor, 14:35, 30th January 2002:
hahahah...
triglodyte lepechaun (6 x 36) = 216 (do misspellings count?)
Posted by
cal, 14:54, 30th January 2002:
The reference to ocelots is very b3ta/rathergood ish
Posted by
MrTin, 21:00, 30th January 2002:
zxenor and I happen to know eachother, and I'd mentioned ocelots, being a fan of b3ta. I don't think misspellings count, if they still have to be in the english language.
Posted by
Awhitney, 21:19, 30th January 2002:
I found one after only about 15 tries.
phlegmatic octagons
15500 x 7660 = 118,730,000
Is there some kind of main site to look for Googlewhacking tips?
Posted by
cal, 21:58, 30th January 2002:
try
this
Posted by
MrTin, 23:59, 30th January 2002:
*trying for high scores now*
ninja Chironomids (875,000 * 4,330) = 3,788,750,000
Posted by
cal, 11:23, 31st January 2002:
good effort.
Posted by
joskins65, 14:41, 6th February 2002:
Spliced polyboard
Posted by
joskins65, 14:43, 6th February 2002:
(oops)what I meant to say was 'spliced polyboard' = 107,000 x 882 = 94,374,000
Posted by
cal, 14:49, 6th February 2002:
pretty good going :)