Googlewhacking = Metastylistical Solitarites
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
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A Googlewhack is a pair of dictionary words that get only one hit at Google. To score, you multiply the hits for each word individually. Invented by Gary Stock, GW pairs get old quickly. For example, four GWs I created (see Googlewhack Stack above from October 2003) now have the following statistics:
2.  marzipan substituents (2,386,800,000,000) 121 hits - Patent 6866863
20. woad decapods (26,681,900,000) 139 hits - hennessey
30. scazon dyslexia (11,648,700,000) 94 hits – All word lists, domain names, or non-English
33. scazon babylon (16,899,000,000) 107 hits -Â Music composer
Today, scazon isn’t even in dictionary.com anymore! Back in January 2002 RCassidy had the World Record score with checkerspot linux (39,564,000,000,000). Today it has 449 hits topped by Joho the Blog.
