"The Google Game"

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• Phil: Would King Arthur go for a sophisticated roundtable beginsurvey
• Kevan: Look out! It's a devils breadcrust bomb!
• bbs: Anyone care to saunter with me to see how Clemens black coolness flocks?
• Kevan: Quoting from the result for that one:- "They all loved Dollis Hill. Mrs. Clemens wrote as if she would like to remain forever in that secluded spot."
• Tolken: No on my 42nd Spectacular Sunny Fingery Plum
• Mud: im so bloody confused, what is going on?
• Kevan: We (all five of us) are making Mornington Crescent moves in the form of Google searches which return only one result, the title of which contains a valid Crescent move. Click on the links to see.
• Kevan: It's probably about time I went for some Gatlinburg violent amusement prizes, actually.
• Ibid: I shall listen to some jittery mailing list limousine screeches
• Phil: I'm straddling to online Petershagen Hippi-Musik
• Phil: [Kevan, Tolken] I don't see a move in the 'devils breadcrust bomb' or '42nd Spectacular Sunny Fingery Plum'. Am I missing something clever?
• Kevan: [Phil] Monument, for mine, although it now returns three results (one of them being, hurrah, this very page). I'm pretty sure Tolken's move said something at the time - maybe they've retitled their pages since...
• Tolken: Mine said (and still says) Goodge Street. And links here as well now...
• Kevan: [Tolken] Oh, in the quoted text. I thought we were going for titles, for some reason.
• Phil: [Kevan] I think I must have had temporary blindness not to see Monument. I do agree that the original rules indicated the title, IIRC.
• Phil: And now I feel a shunt to the Ontario scrub-a-dub drug eliminator
• Tolken: [Phil,Kevan] ought to be okay if it appears in the summary, surely? Otherwise we're pretty limited in the choice of stations...
• Kevan: Some foul entrenched whimpering videos should help, here.
  [Tolken] Searching around for the more obscure station names, "Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3" is the only one I can find whose name doesn't appear in a page title.
• z: JUST WHERE IS YOUR (SUCCESS PROGRAMS) OFFICE?
• Phil: Let's play anticlockwise chess in Maple Manor
• ziv: Frolunda futon
• re: kakorat tin
• blamelewis: It's mini-speed burst - yay! "spelunk bod"
• dusty robot: tohuwabohu liberace
• Yoda eater: goat liver rhinestone bus filter
• Yoda Avenger: I hate those 'edgy dizzy mad harsh searches from web technology from hell or Miami florida'
• Phil: I think it's time I played my trump card, so I'll jump straight in with eiffel workshops gore window tavern Mornington Crescent

• Phil (Winner's Comments): What a pleasant game that was, for a google addict at least.
• Kevan: Mm, good stuff. And hello to all of the Google-searchers who've reached this page looking for tangents of the above, and now hate us.
• Dan: [Kevan] Indeed. Ideally, spider-suppression should probably be a settable game option. I'll have to retrofit this when I can.
• Kevan: Hm, it should? I get angry about search engine "optimisers" who make huge, fake pasted-text pages to increase traffic to client sites (I hit a few computer hardware sites when searching for something about human memory, because their Google previews seemed relevant), but finding your search terms in any honestly-written Web page seems fair enough, to me.
  I think most hits to this page are from people seeking a 'google game', anyway, aren't they? (How easy would it be to add the game name in brackets to the end of each logged Google hit, out of interest?)
• Dan: Well, the usual reason for blocking crawlers is that the site is too dynamic to be indexed meaningfully. The hits page is in robots.txt for that reason, since its contents change at least once or twice a day there's good reason for it not to be indexed. But this particular game, while technically honestly written, nevertheless exists specifically to list keywords without actually intending to reference any content related to those keywords. In other words, it's loaded with search terms that, while not meant to mislead a search engine, nevertheless unintentionally perform precisely that function in almost precisely the same way. Mind you, I'm just arguing for discursive purposes, I'm not actually bothered by it or anything.
• me me: Myrene Reyes
• Devon: I have not found anything it is hard have had one that wat at 3 but not just one
• junkman: I am craving some knackwurst blasphemy.
• Michael Sleeman: Charles Taylor view "Locke's punctual self'
• chanae: chanae
• Kevan: [Dan, ages ago] This game does reference some content, though; it's possible that someone might click through to a useful Google result, having arrived here following mixed-move keywords. It's certainly more useful to the Internet at large than something like Legume Viscosity Ramp...
  Maybe it's worth locking the game now that we've just got random undead thumping consistently against the glass doors, though.
• Elizian: I just popped in and notice that Phil's winning move no longer qualifies by virtue of finding itself on Google!

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