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Okay, I am meant to be doing my dissertation, so what am I doing instead? Yes that’s right, I’m writing a review (oh hear, I’m going to fail!)

The idea of Googlewhacking was first thought up by Gary Stock, who runs the website googlewhack.com, and you can go there to view any current googlewhacks, and add any that you find. Googlewhacking – what’s that? I hear you ask. Well it’s fairly simple really – “Googlewhacking” is an internet phenomenon, that takes up a few minutes whilst you are bored in the office – to play you simply need to go to the internet browser “Google” and type in two dictionary words – if you get one solitary hit (1 of 1 of about 1), and it is not a word list (or similar), and both of the words that you have typed are underlined (that means that they are in the dictionary) then you have a Google Whack! (You’re also not allowed to use quotation marks). I bet you’re thinking “that sounds like an innocent diversion”, and you are probably right, unless your name is Dave Gorman.

Dave thinks that he has grown up since his last adventure; he is now 31, and he has now ended his flat-share with Danny, and all that is left is a bottle of Tequila with a note on it reading “For Emergencies Only”. Dave decides to prove his new “grown-up” status by growing a beard and getting a deal to write a novel. One day whilst sitting at his computer trying to start the novel (he had got as far as writing “chapter one”), Dave receives an e-mail saying “you are a Googlewhack”. After much deliberation down the pub as to what a “Googlewhack” was, Dave decides to reply to the e-mail; to find that his website (Davegorman.com) contained a Googlewhack (Francophile Namesakes). This got Dave’s curiosity going, and he decided to find a few googlewhacks of his own.

Once Dave has found a googlewhack, he finds the e-mail address for the author of the site, and e-mails them to let them know that they are a googlewhack (he thinks that it is the only polite thing to do), and leaves it at that. However, Dave’s mind works in a curious way – he starts making up ways of trying to find googlewhacks easier, like taking two answers from a cryptic crossword and typing them into google, he even calls is “Gorman’s first theory of Googlewhacking”!! After a while, and some correspondence, Dave ends up meeting “his” googlewhack (Dork Turnspit), and he then has a go at finding another googlewhack…..

….which leads to a website run by another Dave Gorman – one that he already met in his quest to meet 54 other Dave Gormans. Anyway, Dave goes to stay with David (as the other Dave likes to be called, and it also makes it slightly less confusing) to get away from the stress of writing a novel (he still hasn’t written anything!) Whilst there, David challenges Dave that he wouldn’t be able to meet 10 other googlewhacks in a chain. He lays down some rules: each googlewhack is only allowed to find two other googlewhacks, and they have to be in a chain (one googlewhack leading to another googlewhack, which leads to another googlewhack and so on) not just ten random googlewhacks.

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  • Ross-Murray 13/11/2006 19:15
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    Great review, I love this book, Dave Gorman is very funny, I've got a DVD of the live show too!

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    I'm reading and enjoying this at the moment. Not sure about Dave's ginger beard, though.

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