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Googlewhacking posted 5th August 2003

Googlewhacking may well be the latest time-wasting trend for Googlenauts, and it’s even more pointless than Googlefight. It is mildly addictive though. One locates a whack by finding two (and only two) words which, when entered into Google , receive a single result. Here’s a Googlewhack I found earlier.

British comedian Dave Gorman has created another of his one man shows based on his experiences while Googlewhacking. So far it’s received rave reviews in Australia and he’ll be perforrming it at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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Blogmarks: Clagnut posts have been getting longer and less frequent of late, which means a bunch of sites are going noticed but unreported. So it was time to emulate the trend of a rolling list of links – hence the creation of blogmarks.