Editing Googlewhack (section)

==History==
The term ''googlewhack'', coined by Gary Stock, first appeared on the web at UnBlinking on 8 January 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020206050214/http://www.unblinking.com/heh/googlewhack.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=6 February 2002 |title=Googlewhacking: The Search for The One True Googlewhack |publisher=Unblinking.com |access-date=2014-03-28}}</ref> Subsequently, Stock created The Whack Stack, at googlewhack.com, to allow the verification and collection of user-submitted Googlewhacks.

Googlewhacks were the basis of British comedian [[Dave Gorman]]'s comedy tour ''[[Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure]]'' and book of the same name.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gorman|first1=Dave|title=Dave Gorman's Googlewhack! adventure|date=2005|publisher=Ebury|location=London|isbn=0091897424}}</ref> In these Gorman tells the true story of how, while attempting to write a novel for his publisher, he became obsessed with Googlewhacks and travelled across the world finding people who had authored them. Although he never completed his original novel, ''Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure'' went on to be a [[The Sunday Times (UK)|'' Sunday Times'']] No. 1 best seller in the UK.

Participants at Googlewhack.com discovered the sporadic "cleaner girl" bug in Google's search algorithm where "results 1–1 of thousands" were returned for two relatively common words<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.googlewhack.com/nack.htm|title=Googlewhack NACK!|publisher=Googlewhack.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806151106/http://googlewhack.com/nack.htm|archive-date=6 August 2017|url-status=dead|access-date=2014-03-28}}</ref> such as Anxiousness Scheduler<ref>{{cite web |last=Essex |first=Mike |url=http://blog.blagman.co.uk/2012/02/anxiousness-scheduler-now-theres.html |title=Anxiousness Scheduler |publisher=Blog.blagman.co.uk |date=2012-02-13 |access-date=2014-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329002255/http://blog.blagman.co.uk/2012/02/anxiousness-scheduler-now-theres.html |archive-date=29 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> or Italianate Tablesides.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.googlewhack.com/tally.pl|title=italianate tablesides|publisher=Googlewhack.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121224941/http://www.googlewhack.com/tally.pl|archive-date=2013-01-21|url-status=dead|access-date=2014-03-28}}</ref>

Googlewhack went offline in November 2009 after Google stopped providing definition links.{{Definition needed|date=June 2019}} Gary Stock stated on the game's web page soon afterward that he was pursuing solutions for Googlewhack to remain viable.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

===Score===
Some people propose the googlewhack "score", which is the product of the hits of the individual words.<ref>googlewhack scoring is discussed numerous places, e.g.,: [http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=940578] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203010502/http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=940578|date=3 December 2013}} [http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2002/01/25/new-googlewhack-leader-new-tool/] [http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=940578] </ref> Thus a googlewhack score is highest when the individual words produce a large number of hits.

=== Examples ===

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