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Google-plexing

2002-01-11 16:18:37+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

I first saw this over on Borklog, the parlor game of trying to find word combinations that don't show up on Google. And it seemed like people were making more of a deal than it should be, although I couldn't remember any combinations off the top of my head, I know I've seen "Your search - ... - did not match any documents" numerous times for fairly short searches. Although some of those were programming searches, looking for specific variable names. Well, the subject came up at Scotch Night last night, and this morning I've got mail from Sam saying:

Too easy. Took less than 5 minutes to come up with

rastafarian yttrbium
and
rastafarian dysprosium

Amazingly, "rastafarian yttrium" and "rastafarian protactinium" each have one match.

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#Comment made: 2002-02-21 05:34:23+00 by: petronius

Its the matches of Ratafarian and Plutonium that have me worried.

#Comment made: 2002-02-21 05:34:25+00 by: Aaron Swartz

A while back I found tarsier hypermedia with no hits.

#Comment made: 2002-02-21 05:34:26+00 by: ethan

Now "rastafarian yttrium" generates TWO results. Gee, I wonder what could the new match be?! :-)