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Are You Dave... Sorry, are you a Googlewhack?

Advantages: Funny
Disadvantages: Feel like the joke has been done before

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 ...

Barbsie 26.02.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure - Dave Gorman

I`m a Googlewhack and I'm OK.....

Advantages: A Good Fun Book
Disadvantages: Could Start You On a Time Consuming Internet Game

...When two of my favourite past-times collide I am always eager to study the results. So when Dave Gorman wrote a book about Googlewhacking he combined the Internet with humour to produce an intriguing and must read book that I simply could not ignore. A ...

stuleg 15.03.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure - Dave Gorman

Mind-numbing humour- you don't even need a brain!

Advantages: Funny and quite interesting really
Disadvantages: A tad unbelievable in places

...Had all gone to plan, this would be a review of Dave Gorman's debut novel. But, like just about everyone who works from home, the comic was just too easily distracted to actually get down to the work for which he'd been handsomely paid. Unlike the r ...

lost_in_muse 21.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure - Dave Gorman

International Googlewhacking

Advantages: Fantastic Read
Disadvantages: Nothing

I realised recently that my literary skills were slowly declining. I hadn't read a book in years and thought I'd get myself back into reading again. Slowly at first with this book. Because I need to build them up if I am to write a nobel winning physics p ...

C_W_Monkey 13.06.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure - Dave Gorman

Any good? Search me!

Advantages: Nice structure, interesting premise
Disadvantages: Flimsy on the details, drops away in second half

...At the turn of the year 2003, Dave Gorman found himself at Heathrow Airport with a ticket to Washington, D.C., his passport and a hazy memory of the night before. As things become less fuzzy, he remembers his drunken acceptance of a mission to find a chai ...

Drooboy 03.02.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure - Dave Gorman