General @ Friday July 08, 2005 02:51 pm by WunderKraut

Google Fun

Here is your assignment for the weekend:

I was reading The Coalition of the Swilling today in which Tree Hugging Sister was bragging about a certain phrase of theirs being the #1 Google response. I added what I knew to be my number one phrase and so did others. That got me thinking: What are your phrases on your site that generate a #1 Google response?

Search strings that I am the #1 Google hit for:

Where in the world do the Dutch live

I have this shooting pain down my left arm

I wish I had written that

Wunderkraut

I EAT TORPS!!

When will California slide into the Pacific Ocean

I find your lack of a backbone disturbing

Evil white males

My buddy Xia

Save me from the nanny state

whacky tobacky

I am sure there are others, but I ran out of time.

Leave me a comment showing your #1 phrase.

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17 Responses to “Google Fun”

  1. on 08 Jul 2005 at 3:09 pm   it comes in pints?

    A small break from the week’s events

    WunderKraut has a little google game going. For what phrases is your site Number One on Google? I already left two at the CotS post that spawned the idea. So get thee thither and comment….

  2. on 08 Jul 2005 at 10:08 pm   Ken Summers

    Am I still the only one commenting? Man, that sucks big ol’ commie worm turds.

    Tell you what buddy, give it a few hours then search Google for “sucks big ol’ commie worm turds”. You may be pleasantly surprised.

  3. on 09 Jul 2005 at 12:17 pm   WunderKraut

    I know. I am a bit upset too. I thought for sure this would bring people out of the woodwork to “promote” their site. Oh well. Maybe they are still hung over from Friday night.

  4. on 09 Jul 2005 at 12:18 pm   WunderKraut

    Actually, I tried to look up your phrase, but my smut filter blocked the results. Probably because of the words suck and turd. Such is life :-(

  5. on 11 Jul 2005 at 10:18 am   Zsa Zsa

    Does it have to be a phrase or can it be one word?… I have learned one of the most fun words just lately! ASSHAT… It is just kind of fun to say! It is almost deserving of a God bless you. It sounds very much like a sneeze!

  6. on 11 Jul 2005 at 10:22 am   WunderKraut

    Ha! That is a very good word Zsa Zsa! Yes it could be one word, however the term “asshat” already has a number one Google site and it is found here

  7. on 11 Jul 2005 at 7:35 pm   Ken Summers

    Did I lie?

  8. on 11 Jul 2005 at 7:45 pm   it comes in pints?

    I have found my true calling

    Be it known that I am capable of making any blog #1 on google. That’s a far better gift this holiday season than some dumb old star. If you would like to be #1 on google, send a check or…

  9. on 11 Jul 2005 at 9:11 pm   Steve Ely

    I didn’t comment earlier because I imagined when I read Ken’s earlier post it meant actual visitors had to have found the site through the #1 ranked Google result. Most phrases of mine that qualified that way are rather prosaic, and, I’ve discovered, Google doesn’t seem to be indexing some of my earlier posts anymore–I don’t know why. So I didn’t bring up, for instance, my former number 1 ranking for “Shrimp vs Prawns.”

    I think I’ve caught on now. My site’s number one for “hairy giblet helicopter act,” though in fairness that’s only in there because I was trying to rig the Googlism results for a friend’s name the way Ken did for Google and the worm turd phrase.

    It looks, though, like my site is at the moment also the number one result for:

    Unexpected metafiction

    Overachieving doppelgangers

    and…

    Prosaic search-results vein

  10. on 11 Jul 2005 at 9:34 pm   Ken Summers

    “hairy giblet helicopter act” – Rock ON!

  11. on 12 Jul 2005 at 2:02 am   Alan K. Henderson

    “vulcans as catholics”
    “vast right wing complacency” (okay, I invented that phrase)
    the volokh conspiracy comes in pints of rye beer (all are words from the blogroll)

  12. on 12 Jul 2005 at 8:04 am   WunderKraut

    I am going to have to go with the “hairy giblet helicopter act” as far as being funny goes. But as far as an actual phrase that seems to draw visitors to my site, nothing compares to “Where in the world do the Dutch live?” HA!

  13. on 12 Jul 2005 at 9:14 am   Matt

    “emanating penumbrae”. Up until this month I was the ONLY site where Google could find that phrase!

  14. on 12 Jul 2005 at 6:49 pm   Steve Ely

    I find pretty damn hilarious the string “the volokh conspiracy comes in pints of rye beer” and can imagine more than one politically-minded blogger after an extended night of enthusiastic imbibing actually punching that into Google.

    I wish I could claim credit for crafting the sentence “Eric Norris is famous on the dinner theater circuit for his Hairy Giblet Helicopter act,” but its creator is also its subject, a guy who says much funnier things constantly at work and threw that gem out there the day after I discovered Googlism.

    We were hoping to see it spring up in this list. No luck yet. If you enter my name into Googlism, the few results include “Steve Ely is responsible for the day.” If you enter the name of Ken Summers, the results include “Ken Summers is 100% absolutly correct.”

  15. on 12 Jul 2005 at 6:56 pm   Steve Ely

    Dang it. It’s “absolutly 100%,” not “100% absolutly.” I should look into doing some better proofreading. Or maybe “Ken Summers is going to look into it for me as of 12 feb.”

  16. on 13 Jul 2005 at 12:02 am   Alan K. Henderson

    Here’s another one:

    the glory of the shrill instapundit spatula diktat

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