Tuesday, January 29, 2002

Trouble is all these fun and games get posted to weblogs and some of these get picked up by Google, then all of a sudden there are half a dozen "irradiation plectrums" out there. Similarly some of these bloggers have entered "intelligent weblogs" as a search phrase and then muddied their results by posting them.
Apparently there is a new pastime for extreme web searchers, Googlewhacking. The goal is to juxtapose unusual word combinations, most frequently two words, with the goal of obtaining one singular hit when these words are entered in as a search term in Google. I'm quite fond of "irradiation plectrum", which apparently is the best way to sterilise a banjo player's hands. Sad but fun.