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One Hit Wonders predates Googlewhacking

One Hit Wonders is a search engine game that dates from late 1996 where players try to find two-word submissions to Altavista that receive only one hit. This predates Googlewhacking by a good 5 years. OHW appears to have a superior scoring system as well, rewarding players for more common words.

I found this on the world's most thrilling games you can play involving your search engine page which also includes games such as Web Pursuit and the prime number game.

By Jason Kottke    Jun 7, 2002 at 08:33 am

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