Nitin, naam to suna hi hoga

Nitin, naam to suna hi hoga
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Google Whack

I watched this documentary a long time back, but it is about one of the most time consuming games I have ever played.If you love googling & words then this is the game for you.As Dave Gorman succinctly describes in the documentary a Googlewhack is the unique single hit which you get after putting two distinct existing words in Google's search engine.In short it is : 2 words 1 hit.There are some rules for Googlewhacking :

1) No punctuations should be used.
2)The words should be existing i.e present on Dictionary
3)The single hit should not be a word list or dictionary.

If you cannot grasp the idea of the game then please comment.I will try to clear your doubts.

Dave got an E-mail from a stranger that he was a Googlewhack( His web page contained two distinct existing words.).So he also started playing the game himself & found out other Googlewhacks.He personally met with them, went to their places & urged them that they should continue the chain until he finds 10 Googlewhacks.In his journey he goes to various countries & also gets stuck up for a long period of time in his search.But finally he makes it to 10.He uses various techniques to find words which are sufficiently unfamiliar.He used crosswords to find them & was successful many times.(I couldn't find one myself so can't put up an example.)

He told about various incidents that happen during his journey.He also wrote a book on this topic & gives great shows. You can watch one small part of the documentary here

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