As we know many people spend hours searching Google with varying degrees of success but what a lot of people don’t know is that there is a Holy Grail within Google that urges searchers on to find this bizarre treasure. It is to find a Googlewhack.
A Google what? A Googlewhack. This is the gold at the end of the rainbow for many intrepid explorers. A Google whack is when you get a single search result from a two word enquiry.
My son has been trying for years to achieve a Googlewhack by entering obscure financial terms into the search box without any success. He was green with envy when I told him that I had stumbled across such a find entirely by accident.
It happened when I was writing a tutorial for my computer pupils and I wanted to confirm that there was a town called Auchtermory in Fife in Scotland. On entering “Auchtermory” and “Fife” into the search box I got the Google whack of a solitary search result. It referred me to a single website on the subject written in Italian!!
Funny how a little serendipity can bring sunshine into one’s life – either that or one realises that “little things please little minds”.
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