Friday, June 13, 2008

My very own Whack!!


There i was again, getting bored after a full day at office in front of the laptop; disgusted to know that i am once again going to sit in front of the mighty computer and allow myself to check my mail and my scraps if someone left any message for me. Its just the fact that i am now unable to lead a life without this thinking-machine that's practically taken over mine!
Anyway, I was bored of the routine mail-scrap checking and started the ultimate boredom-killer once again. Its called Stumble-Upon.. a wonderful tool that actually picks up random pages based on your interest and displays on the click of a button.
I click it and it displays a page featuring a "Google Whack". The name did ring some bells, it was some competition in my college's tech Fest. I quickly scanned through the rest of the page and learnt that its basically searching for two English keywords that yield ONE result, i.e. results 1 of 1 :)
Man!! I just discovered a great tool to overcome boredom. I immediately opened up a dictionary and started looking for completely unrelated words like "yoga" and "flywheel"
But damn! someone had already put up even such combinations on his site. and these seemingly unrelated words were not just a few, but they produced like 71,400 results !!
So the trick was to get hold of words that are seldom used by anyone in common speech.
Then after about an hour or so, i managed to produce a minimum of 10 results. The interest just kept getting stronger until i realized that something was obstructing my way.
It was the dictionary sites!
There were about 10 dictionaries and they had all the words. Every two word combinations would be found in their site and this really pissed me off.. I began pondering... does the great Google Whack still exist?
Then came the key realization.. getting hold of two words that feature in the different types of written English (like the British version and the American version)
It was another half hour or so when i finally came across a combination that produced 2 results.. I knew the end was near... Another 15 minutes of intense googling, it paid off !
"Antiestablishmentarianism superintendence" was 1 of 1 result...
Another 15 minutes and i found
"Antiestablishmentarianism aggreviate" with the same 1 result. This in fact was so rare that i was not totally convinced that such a word even existed!
Then finally the biggie:
"Antiestablishmentarianism thematisation" . . This actually fetched NO results !!
Both were perfect English words but nobody ever heard of these two coming together.
And this is the reason why i am writing this post, soon my post will have the one topnotch result :)

Antiestablishmentarianism superintendence (1)

Antiestablishmentarianism aggreviate (1)

Antiestablishmentarianism xerographically (2 Results)

Antiestablishmentarianism thingummybob (2 Results)

Antiestablishmentarianism tsarevich (2 Results)

Antiestablishmentarianism thematisation (NO Results)

5 comments:

maverick said...

interesting thing to spend time on.. i hope even my company pays me for doin dis all day..gr8 work.. short n sweet as always..

Ydntn said...

thanks :) the worst part is that now "Antiestablishmentarianism superintendence" is giving two results!! someone added these two words in their dictionary :)
And clarification!!! this was done @ home; not office :D

Hari said...

actually a good time pass dude... even i'm in search of such faaltu stuff to kill time.. WHAT AN IDEA SIRJEE!!

Ydntn said...

php - Hari .. dude why din you write your name da?... i was thinking who this is!! :D

Archana A said...

Hey Nice posts! keep them going!!

Arch :)