Nexcerpt for: Whack Editor: Gary Stock - Googlewhack Published at: Fri, Dec 1, 2006 13:45 EST

Hmmm... six months since the last issue of GW news, and exactly six articles to report....
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1. Slashdot Politics, Thu, Nov 9, 2006 What Would Google Decide? text Political / Internet / Daily ... What Would Google Decide? Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 08, @03:34PM from the where-is-my-wwgd-armband dept. Google Politics Gary Stock, the guy who invented the Googlewhack, tried a bit of Google election predicting last night. Using a methodology that is entirely indefensible, and which he does not try to defend, Stock asked Google to call the results on Michigan's five referendum questions. The result: Google's answers to two questions were spot-on, two questions were answered correctly but underrepresented the 'yes' ...   My name is never mentioned without being identified as...
2. San Jose Mercury News Front Page (CA), Sat, Jul 8, 2006 Chung: It's official: Google it, or look it up Front Page / Newspaper / Daily ... Chung: It's official: Google it, or look it up By L.A. Chung Mercury News Perhaps you've been googling people for years. Or maybe you're a closet Googlewhacker. Or you fridge-google much too often, attempting to come up with an edible dinner. Now it's official: ``google'' -- as a verb only -- has made it into ... West Coast innovation Of course, there are regional differences when it comes to word usage. Sokolowski lives in New England. He'd never heard of ``Googlewhacking,'' the practice of stringing two search words together to come up with a single reference on Google. I didn't even try ``fridge-googling,'' a newer term coined by people who look at the ...   Now an unavoidable part of the lexicon...
3. Scotsman Headlines Features, Sat, Nov 25, 2006 Lazy Guide to Net Culture: So farewell then text General Interest / Newspaper / Daily ... up the totality of my journalistic expertise. Still, it's been a wild ride. I've greatly enjoyed the close contact its brought me with the users, both good and bad. Often bad. Mostly bad. And worse than bad. And threatening. And sinister. And downright disturbing. But, hey, that's the internet for you. I started this column in 2003, when it was a whole lot colder out there. The first Lazy Guide - in January 2003 - was about the sport of Googlewhacking. My favourite Lazy Guide was about the passing of my journalistic hero, the late, great Hunter S Thompson: The good doctor stood for a different kind of journalism: one that cared less for facts than truth. His writing reproaches the rest of us, who rewrite press releases, follow the party line and only have ...   Perfect: the first "Lazy Guide" was about Googlewhack...
4. UK Guardian, Sat, Nov 25, 2006 The kingdom of comedy text News / Internet / Daily ... limb-from-limb when I announced I had early copies of the Christmas specials) to the point at which NBC bought the rights to the show - and produced an American version that, starring Daily Show veteran Steve Carrell, is now almost as good. Meanwhile, over at The Daily Show itself, where Gervais and Cohen have long been ecstatically received guests, a recent shakeup of ... correspondents has brought aboard two Englishmen, John Oliver ("Senior Daily Show Carryonologist") and Dave Gorman, both of whom give really good Idiot. Where The Daily Show leads, everyone else follows. In the past few years, Britons have revolutionised American TV in horrible ways, thanks to the English creators of American Idol (Simon ...   "Googlewhack" Gorman Gets Groovy Gig!
5. National Post Arts, Tue, Nov 7, 2006 Winner fake all! text Arts and Culture / Newspaper / Daily ... quarter-million Canadians will be staying up to see what two of the continent's most respected (albeit fake) news programs have to say about the results as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report join forces for their live Midterm Midtacular (The Comedy Network, 11 p.m. ET). But today marks another milestone for fans of ... are leavened by the deadpan genius of "resident expert" John Hodgman, Demetri Martin's Trendspotting reports, This Week in God and the newest addition to the roster, Poll Smoking with Dave Gorman. * 1 * 2 * next page Today's Post Four Seasons founder Isadore Sharp has agreed to sell the luxury hotel and resort chain, which includes properties in... ...
6. UK Guardian, Wed, Oct 4, 2006 Multimedia Videos, podcasts and slideshows from the party conferences text News / Internet / Daily ... October 4, video: Guardian columnist George Monbiot today spoke out against the motion that global companies are a force for good. Matthew Tempest asks him how it felt to lose the vote. Ann Widdecombe. Still from a video by Martin Argles and Dan Chung. Watch this space October 3, video: Ann Widdecombe unveils her 'Widdeo-Video' and Tory blogger Iain Dale shows how it's done, in this behind-the-scenes look at the technologies changing politics - and journalism. Matthew Tempest reports. George and Dave's Googlewhack adventure October 3, video: Google's Eric Schmidt addresses the conference Sound as a pound? October 3, video: Michael White dissects George Osborne's statements on tax and reflects on his relatively tender age. Torch or tree? October 2, video: We asked delegates to the Conservative party conference which logo they preferred. Video by Dan Chung and Ros ...   ...from the party conferences?!?
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