Sssh, I’m hunting Googlenopes
Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post recently coined the term “Googlenope” as a phrase or expression that is not present somewhere on the Web and therefore not cached by the Google search engine.
In his article Weingarten compiled a list of several “Googlenopes” he found. Of course, now that he has written about them they will no longer be “Googlenopes”.
I decided to also seek out some rare “Googlenopes” of my own. I first tried “nietzsche for dummies”. Nope, 160 results. Next I tried “Bill Gates Nude”. To my surprise and disgust, there were 142 results. This was going to be more difficult than I expected.
However, after a while I started to get a feel for hunting the elusive “Googlenope”. The more unrealistic the phrase the better the odds of uncovering a “Googlenope”. My top kills included “superstar federline”, “elmer fudd marries wabbit”, “lindsay lohan shows self control”, and “go2tap.com named best blog ever”.
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How about “google to seek world domination”
Awesome post! Love the ‘Googlenopes’ you came up with. I’ll have to try it sometime.
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In the Sunday,8/5/2007,Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten had a follow-up column to his original Googlenopes column. He mentions a new website, http://googlenope.com, which is a reader contest on these. It’s pretty clever; definitely worth checking out.