We here at cac.ophony recently received this curious email from across the pond:
Dear Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute
I am writing to you from Kent, England. It’s the county just below London.
I wanted to inform you that your blog (http://cac.ophony.org/) is infact a Googlewhack!In case you do not know about Googlewhacks, basically it is a game people play with the search engine google. In an attempt to find just one solitary result, they enter two completely random and unrelated words that appear on dictionary.com. My two words were “Jot Semipublicly.”
Following a link to your larger website I stumbled upon this contact.
I thought it appropriate to tell you that you were infact a googlewhack, because if I didn’t, I’d be googlewhacking behind your back.
Hope to hear from you!
Adam
Wow. How cool. A googlewhack here at cac.ophony! What an interesting distinction. There is but one place on the entire world wide web where the words “jot” and “semipublicly” appear on the same page and it is here! Who would have thought? Thanks for letting us know, Adam of Kent!
The official Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute Googlwhack Award goes to our own Kate Moss who authored this googlewhackalicious post.
UPDATE: Here’s Adam’s response to my email letting him know about this post:
Wow.
That was simply my primary response when I saw this page that had been published. I do not recall the last time I was so stereotypically english when reading that there was an official Googlewhack award, exclaiming loudly “Bloody ‘ell!”
This has absolutley made my day, even my month after all these nearby floods and terrible weather. Thank you very much for taking such time and effort.
Thanks Again
Adam
Makes the whole thing worthwhile, doesn’t it? Congrats!
Matt, it would!
In fact, I think I should get an award for mentioning “semipublicly,” “smokin’ blunts” and “Tribble” in the same post Mikhail cites, as indeed I did. If only Adam had been searching for that confluence of terms, I would be made.
However, I think google has (gasp!) made an error. For, unless I am mistaken, the word “jot” does not appear with “semipublicly” in that June 11 post (“Excuse me, Your Online Persona is Showing”) cited above, but instead in my “Veni, Vidi, Wiki” post of September 7th.
Google caught them together on my author’s archives page, which came up when I googled the two terms “jot” and “semipublicly” together. You can see them both here, but not the same post.
Wasn’t there a Brady Bunch episode where Cindy (or Jan?) had to humbly show the judges they’d miscalculated something and she wasn’t a winner after all? (Votes for class president, twirling competition, somebody help me out here.)
It’s okay. Like the unidentifiable Brady girl, I still feel like a winner admitting I noticed the error.