dub3 card · www.googlewhack.com
Googlewhack (2002)
Two dictionary words, one Google result. Post your find and you've ruined it.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Weird Web
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to a random card in your hand.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 2002
A game of finding two dictionary words that together return exactly one Google result, with players' finds checked and logged on the Whack Stack.
Gary Stock coined the word on 8 January 2002 and built the Whack Stack to verify and collect finds. It inspired Dave Gorman's best-selling Googlewhack Adventure, and went offline in November 2009 after Google stopped providing definition links.
In 2002: The word was coined on 8 January; the site's Whack Stack then began checking and collecting players' finds.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Weird Web: One page, one joke, no reason. The internet at its best.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2002 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2002, then plays a short scene. Want Googlewhack in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
