Googlewhacking Goes Prime Time

from the games-for-the-really-bored dept

I have a few friends who are somewhat obsessive about Googlewhacking (the practice of searching on Google for a combination of words that produces one - and only one - result). I'd been trying to avoid it, but I keep hearing about it, and it's now become an officially overhyped fad as ZDNet has an article about it. What I want to know is who was the person who thought he could turn Googlewhacking into a business?

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    Hartti, Jan 30th, 2002 @ 4:06pm

    And the next step: somebody creating pages with two odd words only, listing them on google and then getting fame for "finding" these new googlewhacks...

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