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[Talisker]

A Googlewhack is a Google search query consisting of two words that return a single result. This useless pastime first came to my attention a few years ago when I read comedian Dave Gorman's book 'Googlewhack Adventure' in which he was challenged to follow a Googlewhack trail. Essentially, he started with two Googlewhacks, contacted the website administrators via e-mail, met them, persuaded them to find two more Googlewhacks (some of which were 'dead-ends i.e. no e-mail address or refusal to participate), and so on.........ultimately he managed to make a chain of ten Googlewhacks, travelling 91,000 miles round the world in two months in so doing (not the most environmentally-friendly adventure!).

By chance late one night this week I caught his amusing stand-up show about Googlewhacking on some obscure TV channel. I was reminded that one of the pairs of words in his book that resulted in a Googlewhack was souvlaki and hydroids. Of course, the internet is now much larger than it was back in 2003 when Gorman was seeking Googlewhacks, and a Google search using those two words now results in 310 hits. However, the reminder of this particular pair of words got me thinking about how easy or difficult it would be to find other Googlewhacks with one of the words, like souvlaki, having a Cypriot connection.

The trick is to use unconnected words, but not so unconnected that they give no hits. So, for example, loukaniko and snowflake give an astonishing 1,080 results. Loukaniko and constellation gives 143 hits. However, possibly not surprisingly, loukaniko and cassowary give no hits. I persevered with this Cypriot word though and found a Googlewhack - loukaniko and brontosaurus, the search taking me to a single hit for a website which doesn't appear to obviously contain those words. However, it is a Googlewhack, and satisfies my requirement for one of the words to have a Cypriot connection.

Here are another two:
Angouri and haggis leading to a Spanish website listing new companies, and Choirokitia and kangaroo, the single hit being for a world travel website.

And another one, Choirokitian and squid, gives a Googlewhack which is within the Cyprus Forum!
http://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus21210-80.html

Those of you who participate in the games threads may enjoy spending some time on this more challenging, but equally futile, pastime of Googlewhacking. Who can find the best Cypriot Googlewhack?

[Sotos]

That Choirokitian squid must be GR And Talikser did you know that by making this post you now ruined all those Googlewhacks?

[Sotos]

But you created another one: Choirokitian Googlewhack

[Get Real!]

Alternatively, if you want the FULL MONTY try Mythology + Angouri + Hellenism…

Some also like to call it “the Holy trinity”…

[Talisker]

Thought I'd have now created one within this thread for loukaniko and cassowary but it hasn't happened.

[Oracle]

Alternatively, if you want the FULL MONTY try Mythology + Angouri + Hellenism…

Some also like to call it “the Holy trinity”…

Yes, and guess how many hits you get with Choirokitian and Intellect ... ZERO

But, Choirokitian and Intelligence gives a Googlewhack of one source, right back to CF with someone proposing GR! seriously lacks any

[Talisker]

The next generation of information retrieval systems are on the way, and Google, and the associated game of Googlewhacking, may become obsolete:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 78109.html