taint.org: FRANK THORNE (original) (raw)

Gary Stock @ http://www.unblinking.com/ seems to be running Googlewhacking, originally heard of via a post on0xdeadbeef:

I've gotten addicted to looking for combinations of common words which have the lowest incidence of appearance on web pages, as indexed by google. So far, I have yet to find a set of two common english words which do not appear together on any web pages...

Gary has taken this, and run (far and wide) with it. So here's my_attempt:_ bearnaise destructor: that scores 10600 x 242000 = 2,565,200,000 points.

BTW, I meant to reply to the 0xdeadbeef posting when it came through. This is really a resurfacing of Net Bullseye, created back in 1998 by Harold Chaput:

You and your friends gather around a web browser and go to AltaVista. Now do a search on two words or phrases. .... The first person who enters a search request that comes back with only one found document is the winner.

It's a lot easier than Googlewhacking, since there was less web out there, back then ;) and the phrase addition makes it easy-peasy. Some of our hits:

• +spindoctor +fertilizer (the hit was some kind of Northern Ireland "Peace Book", appropriately enough)
• +freebase +"pogo stick"
• +sasquatch +"vacuum cleaner hose"
• +inflated +"distributed objects everywhere"
• +"ben walsh" +bum
• +"embarrassing anal leakage" +walsh
• +dinner +"baby's kidneys"

Note the predominance of attempts to slag each other off. I'm particularly proud of my "embarrassing anal leakage" (so to speak), aimed right at Ben Walsh. Bullseye!