Interesting searches for thebackpacker.c om

“I bet you thought this was a backpacking website, well think again. Look at some of the searches that bring people here.

cambodian midgets


Brandy Armstrong


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last edited: 5/25/05 7:15:36 AM”

“Looking for a different way of whacking? Here it is ...
by Nicole Liuzzi


Well, do you? It's a perfectly legitimate question: do you search Google repeatedly for the sole purpose of ferreting out one of the elusive two-word queries that turns up a single response? If you do, congratulations! You're a Googlewhacker, and one of those who have experienced this utterly random trend that promises to sweep the nation. If you don't, congratulations! You're about to discover a new way to procrastinate.

Googlewhacking was started by Gary Stock (a random computer programmer and webmaster) in Jan. 2002, and has since been popularized by Dave Gorman's (a random British stand up comedian) "Googlewhack Adventure." So lets get down to the nitty-gritty of it, shall we? The rules are simple: You cannot use quotation marks, the words must exist in Google's dictionary (if there's a link to a definition next to the word in the upper right hand corner of the results page, you're good to go) and, finally, the page must be an actual article or webpage with information not just a list of words. That's it.

There are only three rules to legitimate Googlewhacking, so it should be pretty darn easy, right? Think again. I first heard about Googlewhacking when Dave Gorman appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" not too long ago. At first I thought I could come up with two suitably random words in no time flat. The Googlewhacking gods were not with me, however, and over an hour later - after using words like "badminton," "microcentrifuge," "superfluous," "cantaloupe," "llama" and "ailurophobe," among others - I had yet to find a Googlewhack.

Since then, I've found myself thinking about suitably random combinations of words that might provide me with my first "whack" at odd and sometimes inopportune moments. For instance, when studying for a recent biology exam, I thought "polypeptide," "deoxyribonucleic" and "hydrocarbon" might be good words to use in conjunction with a word like "obsequious" or "fuzzy." I was wrong again, and for some reason the combination of "fuzzy deoxyribonucleic" has about 869 hits. So, let's say you found a Googlewhack with "Floridian brainstormings" or "pre-Columbian pontification" and you want to record it for posterity (or maybe just as proof that you actually found one), go to Googlewhack.com, the official Googlewhacking webpage, and add your discovery to the "Whack Stack." So, basically, Googlewhacking is the most pointless technological craze since Tamagotchi-mania hit elementary schools across the nation. The only question remaining is this: what will your first Googlewhack be?

(pasted from: http://asups.ups.edu/trail/Articles/DispForm.aspx?ID=413&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fasups%2Eups%2Eedu%2Ftrail%2Fopinions%2Fdefault%2Easpx)”

“We must make you proud!”

“That's pretty funny!”

“Googlewhacking sounds like a tough challenge.. to actually only get ONE match.”

“That is too funny. We are a versatile bunch aren't we?”

“Imagine if you searced for "Marvin Gardens"”

“if i search on MSN for sacco it brings up my bulldog website as number 14 out of 100,000 websites.

what's weird is that sacco is not my real name. it's not listed anywhere on the website.

rigth now there's a pissed off guy who put alot of work into making a great website on the sacco-vanzettti trial and he's trying to get his page to come up on searches.
bet he curses that dam bulldog site every night for being ranked above him.”

“Here's an ethical question, then. If you come up with a name for a product or business you have created and you google it and find someone else is using that name already, can you use it, too?”

“Depends on if they have trademarked it, and if it's trademarked for something that can be reasonably be argued to be in the same market as the product or business you want to use the name for.

For instance: Those of you who are older will remember that "Apple" was the name of the Beatles' record company. "Apple" is also the name of a computer company that started up a few years later. Apple Records had no problem with this, until Apple Computers started getting into the music business. Lawsuits were filed, etc., etc. They came up with some compromise.”

“MATT

How 'bout restoring the capability to find our posts in a search, or, at least, to provide a list of the threads in which we have posted?”

“The things we do to bring Matt publicity.

It's a hard job, matt, but we are with you for the long haul.”

“I expect trolls would be right up there too.”

“"cambodian midgets" was my thread.

You owe me big time matt.”

“nowslimmer, just go to Google and enter this as your search terms:

nowslimmer site:thebackpacker.com

That'll get you this.

:)”

“wannabp: Ahh.. a man after my own heart. I have some experience with the very concern you expressed. This link should help answer a lot of your questions.

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/”

“thebackpacker.com - trail talk - lion kills 28 cambodian midgets
Lion kills 28 Cambodian Midgets. ... Everyone knows that 30-or more Cambodian
midgets can defeat a lion... 42, no problemo!” Phil 1:53:11 AM 5/14/05

LMFAO

very good, scary but funny”

“Thanks, Fritz and TownDawg. I'll study it after I return home in July.”

“Hey TownDawg, your man, wannabp, has a vagina.”

“LMAO @ rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”