Get Other People to Find Googlewhacks for You!

FIRST LET ME MAKE IT CLEAR THAT I AM NOT DOING THIS!!!

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You may have heard of crowdsourcing. Wikipedia describes it as:

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"Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people or community in the form of an open call."

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Well today it occurred to me you can easily get other people to unknowingly find googlewhacks for you that they are unable to use themselves. Here's how it could be done:

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1. Set up a blog such as this one where you have lots and lots of little-used words.

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2. When people search for googlewhacks that have two Google search results and one of them is your blog, they can't post them to googlewhack.com because they aren't googlewhacks - YET!

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3. If you sign up for a service such as sitemeter.com, it tells you what Google search lead them to your blog. Example from this blog:

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Referring URL: http://www.google.co...itions&aq=f&oq=&aqi=/
Search Engine: google.com
Search Words: cnut counterintuitions
Visit Entry Page: http://billgronos.blogspot.com/
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4. Perform the search yourself and see if it produces two results. If it does, you can turn it into a valid googlewhack be editing your blog post and deleting one of those words. When Google re-indexes your page, it will now be a valid googlewhack. You could wait till a lot of such semi-googlewhacks collect over time and then delete all of those words.

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5. Post the good ones on googlewhack.com.

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Here's a real example taken from googlewhack.com today, Sept 30, 2009, about 1:00pm CDT:

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789. spoilsport takeunder +speakeasy +tightlippedness stopped by Bill bloody Gronos blog. paul. Belfast

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Paul, I'm sorry my blog killed your clever googlewhack. Whoever "paul, Belfast" is, he's the cleverest, funniest and one of the most prolific posters on googlewhack.com. Here are just a few of his recent ones:

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79. doctorspeaks tome But he refuses to speak to you. Goodnight, all. paul. Belfast

80. overassesses zurich Thanks, lgb, I shall have my chalet relocated to Botswana. paul. Belfast 84. sterilizes preteenagers Evil ideas? Me? Never. (Hi there, Ghost & ralph) paul. Belfast

109. semiglossy zooplankton This is, like, the worst zoo I've ever seen. paul. Belfast

144. afterhearing cockcrows Is it morning already? paul. Belfast

149. torn pettislips It's goodnight from me. Bye. paul. Belfast

171. liposuctioning waitron It pays to suck up to the staff. (Thanks, ralph) paul. Belfast

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Again, I say categorically I have never collected other peoples googlewhacks. But I wonder if someone else has? Whenever I get a new idea, I always think that someone else probably already thought of it too.