Google Whack
A Google Whack is a word or meme that has only a few (preferably only one) Google entry.
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From my point of view, <google:saraquazel> isn't bad. --TL Nor yet is <google:wjramsden> -- WJR :)
You can use things like this as a sort of permanent URL; if you ensure that your homepage always has some particular unusual combination of words, then it can easily be found by googling for those words, even if the URL changes. For example <google:tom-anderson+spumante>. However, take care - writing the query down may well get Google to think that the page with the query on it is the target, as it contains the right words; therefore, URL Escape some of the terms, as in <google:%74om-%61nderson+%73pumante>.
Now famous, sort of, thanks to Dave Gormans Google Whack Adventure.
This page is, or will soon be, a Google Whack for:
- 'Institute of Contemporary Arse' (a fairly obvious epithet for the Institute Of Contemporary Arts)
- 'Drop the science bomb'; dropping the science bomb is a fairly obvious way to combine dropping science on someone and dropping the bomb, both expressions in modern urban english (the latter mostly only in currency with Tim Westwood, though)
- An 'infinite hierarchy of parrots' - not a reference to a metacircular python interpreter (geek joke - feel free to ignore), but the conclusion of a conversation which started with the observation that the parrot on the admiral's shoulder in the Admiral insurance advert is wearing an admiral's hat; it was therefore obvious that the parrot should also have a parrot on its shoulder. One meta later, we arrived at an infinite hierarchy of parrots. Wearing admiral's hats.
- My next album, which will be "Another note from the mad scientist"; this is a line from a Max Fleischer? Superman cartoon. The album will feature a track called 'electrothansia'.