A Googlewhack must consist of two words found in a dictionary and was only considered legitimate if both of the search terms appear in the result.
[3] In these Gorman tells the true story of how, while attempting to write a novel for his publisher, he became obsessed with Googlewhacks and travelled across the world finding people who had authored them.
Participants at Googlewhack.com discovered the sporadic "cleaner girl" bug in Google's search algorithm where "results 1–1 of thousands" were returned for two relatively common words[4] such as Anxiousness Scheduler[5] or Italianate Tablesides.
[definition needed] Gary Stock stated on the game's web page soon afterward that he was pursuing solutions for Googlewhack to remain viable.
New Scientist has discussed the idea of a Googlewhackblatt, which is similar to a Googlewhack except that it involves finding a single word that produces only one Google result.
Those words that do not produce any Google search results at all are known as Antegooglewhackblatts before they are listed—and subsequently elevated to Googlewhackblatt status if it is not blocked by robots.txt.