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A Googlewhack must consist of two actual words found in a dictionary.

A Googlewhack is considered legitimate if both of the searched-for words appear in the result page.

This could be the new googlewhack.

Googlewhack went offline in November 2009 after Google stopped providing definition links.

A googlewhack is what you get when you type two words into the Internet search engine Google and it comes back with only one entry.

It is also mentioned in Dave Gorman's book Googlewhack.

Gary Stock stated on the game's web page soon afterwards that he was pursuing solutions for Googlewhack to remain viable.

During his "Googlewhack Adventure", Gorman had a nervous breakdown which he discusses frankly in the show.

"Dave Gorman's Googlewhack!

Mr. Gorman contacted the owner of a googlewhacked site, tracked this person down in France and asked him to find another googlewhack.

Coulter Young, who is the curator for this show, got the idea for it from googlewhack, to put two words into Google that come back with one result.

The term was coined by Gary Stock, a Web researcher who lays out the particulars of the game at www.unblinking.com/heh /googlewhack.

In 2003, he toured Britain with a show entitled Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure, and published a book of the same name.

He ended up writing a book about his Googlewhack Adventure which went on to be the Sunday Times Number One Best Seller.

A Googlewhack is a type of contest for finding a Google search query consisting of exactly two words without quotation marks, that returns exactly one hit.

In 2005, he toured the U.S. and performed his Googlewhack show in several cities including Los Angeles.

The band contributed a specially written song for the DVD release of Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure.

Once that man discovered a site and contacted its owner in Washington, Mr. Gorman was on a plane to find him - and, of course, the next googlewhack.

The term Googlewhack first appeared on the web at UnBlinking on 8 January 2001; the term was coined by Gary Stock.

In 2004, a DVD of the popular Googlewhack Adventure was released which was filmed at Swansea Grand Theatre.

He made a page on his blog containing the googlewhack of Belle de Jour and Brooke Magnanti that allowed him to see if anyone googled the two names.

New Scientist has discussed the idea of a Googlewhackblatt, which is similar to a Googlewhack except that it involves finding a single word that produces only one Google result.

Enter two common words into the Googlewhacker 74 Zillion and it will instamagically tell you if you have stumbled upon that most ellusive of beasts, the Googlewhack.

He eventually spent his publisher's advance on the quest, without writing any of the promised novel, and had to create the Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure show to pay them back.

Mr. Gorman describes each of them as "lovely, lovely people" - except the creationist, whose lack of interest in finding a googlewhack draws Mr. Gorman's ire.

You are going to get at least 40 whacks, understand?

I've been taking a few whacks at the garden, too.

They all needed a few whacks with a lead pipe.

"We allowed too many second and third whacks at the net."

She found out later that she'd got six whacks from the teacher's ruler for being late.

I was thinking, let it go, be aggressive, take your whacks.

"I had more than my share of whacks on the behind.

A few whacks from her trunk were always enough to do the trick!

Usually she would get four whacks with it, on rare occasions six.

He took a couple of good whacks at the twisted metal pieces.

He began to chop up each apple with six quick whacks.

"You took an ax and gave your mother forty whacks?"

He'd taken whacks at Travis's credibility, but what choice had she given him?

"Four whacks, Richard, and make sure that she feels them!"

A few hard whacks from a small sledge had been sufficient.

We had a couple of whacks at them and didn't do it."

With the money and the notoriety come the whacks.

But it does not take unnecessary whacks at America's premier high-tech company.

His occupation is market research, which enables the author to take whacks at advertising as a way of life.

Something stronger than fear of her mother's light broom whacks seemed to be holding the girl back.

After a few whacks with an iron bar, no one moans any more.

Then she delivered two biting whacks with her utmost energy.

I took a few whacks myself getting the mob done, but lay them low I did.

I gave it a few more whacks and eventually it swung open.