Spam & Googlenopes
Doug Caverly | Staff WriterThere was a very clear film of a very murky object that got
released the other day; it may or may not be the Loch Ness Monster.
As for ghosts (and many other strange entities), the debate also
continues. But “Googlenopes” – the term is new – do exist!
Hat tip to Marketing Pilgrim’s Andy Beal for happening upon this
one; Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post compiled a list of
so-called “Googlenopes.” As it turns out, the terms and phrases
Google doesn’t recognize are generally both funny and unrealistic,
but at least satire can remain in human hands after robots take
over the world.
Weingarten started off, logically enough, by explaining the
beginning of his quest. “It’s pretty hard to find a phrase or
expression that is not out there somewhere on the Web,” he writes.
“I know. I’ve tried. No matter how unlikely it may seem that
anyone has ever put certain words together, someone, somewhere,
probably has. When I Googled the exact phrase ‘Santa Claus nude,’
I got 278 hits.”
Googlenopes. It’s almost sad that, by publishing his article,
the Post writer ended their rare status, but there you have it.“Sonnets by Elmer” was a decent one. “Thor adjusted his mascara”
also creates an interesting picture. And we mustn’t forget, “Much
to Paris Hilton’s embarrassment …”
There were also a couple of political Googlenopes. To be fair,
I’ll reprint one each, in terms of slighting representatives of
the major parties; “The dainty Hillary Clinton” and “Richard Cheney
in ’08” were probably the top two.
Your humble author tried to contribute an original Googlenope to
this article – I really did – but due to time constraints, I
failed. For the record, though, Google believes the existence
of a “badass pocket protector” has only been hinted at once
before.
So far this story that I found in a newsletter from webpronews… this was actualy one that I did signed up for however usualy I don’t read it.. I probably signed up for it because I made an acocunt on a forum somewhere and that included this newsletter..
I wanted to know more and.. I googled the term googlenopes and found the rest of the story:
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/587410.html
and there was more…
http://www.pierrelemieux.org/artgooglenopes.html
and I am sure that you will be able to find tons more of these stories once you google it too 🙂 and perhaps you go test it out yourself 🙂
Anyhow.. now you know what googlenopes is 🙂 quite entertaining story eh? especially when one is bored LOL
hugs ela
Tags: fun, google, Googlenope, Story
April 28th, 2010 at 11:56 pm