A recent concept (Me give attribution? On the web?? You must be joking!!!) in waste of www time: Go to Google, and type in search terms which yield precisely one result.
Sure, if you type in ``"Mary Poppins" "tensor calculus" foo bar'', you'll get nothing. That's not a challenge! But try getting exactly one...
The next step after finding a successful googlewhack is to publish it on your blog, your friends' blogs, Everything2, SlashDot, Kuro5hin, and everywhere else. This has the unfortunate side-effect of destroying the googlewhack, of course. But such is the self referential online life.
Googlewhacks are parametrized by the number of terms or words that they contain. Of course, stepwise refinement towards a whack, as evidenced by words from the same domain, does not count. A 1-term googlewhack is relatively easy, as are 5-termers. The grail here is the 2-word googlewhack; for this writeup I came up with my first (current for January 31, 2002): "Tarski prokaryote".
Zerotime recommends "monitron pants".
1. Googlefactors must exist in this dictionary . It's so easy to confirm: Google does the work! In the blue bar atop your Google results, accepted terms are linked to dictionary.com, and so appear 'underlined.' No line, no link = Googlethud! 2. Google also is the arbiter of a whack's uniqueness. Look to the right end of the blue bar atop your Google results. If you see "Results 1 - 1 of (any number),' you found exactly one hit = Googlewhack! 3. Google shows you an excerpt of the page you whacked. Look at that text. If it's merely a list of words, No Whack For You!
Example:
score: manganese: found on 402,000 pages lolitas: found on 1,830,000 pages
total score: 735,660,000,000
As you can see, in order to maximize your score, both terms can be fairly common on it's own, but only cross paths once. "Lolitas," as you can imagine is a very common word. But it's rare, in fact, unique, to see the word "lolitas" appear on the same page as "manganese."
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