June 29, 2005
Googlewhacks
Any websites that list specific Googlewhacks of course cause the Googlewhacks they list to no longer be Googlewhacks. The original Googlewhacks experience a sort of a Schrodinger's Cat situation. As soon as you list a Googlewhack on the web, it ceases to be a Googlewhack.
One way to hedge against this is to list a Googlewhack and a similar pair of qualifying words that result in exactly 0 hits. For example, at the time of this writing, "parapraxis skullduggery" is a Googlewhack. As soon as this page is indexed by Google, however, it will cease to be a Googlewhack and "transliterating parapraxis," which currently results in 0 hits, will become one.
Posted by Lonne at 06:47 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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One solution would be to only list googlewacks on sites which instruct the Google spider not to index them. I dimly remember something about having a robots.txt file which will do this. As far as I'm aware, the Google spider is fairly responsive to this kind of thing.
Posted by: Dan at June 30, 2005 02:17 AM
It seems like now Google does have a page for "parapraxis skullduggery"--and it is NOT this page! See:
http://www.norvig.com/npdict.txt (the only result returned on my Google search for the phrase!)
Posted by: Morgan at June 30, 2005 02:44 AM
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